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 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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I work to stay alive.
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