You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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