I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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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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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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