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 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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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.
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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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One 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.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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