Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything 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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I 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!
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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