People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I work to stay alive.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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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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