One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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