What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISI may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I will never be below the title.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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