I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
BETTE DAVISOne can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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