I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVISAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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