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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Bette Davis

I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Act Big Life
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS

Enough Myself Thinking
Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Children Hate Parents Yourself
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVIS

Freedom Myself
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVIS

Movie Reason
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS

I Miss You Missing Pain True
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVIS

Luck People Treat Yourself
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVIS

Right Yourself

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

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