People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISI’ve lost my faith in science.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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 was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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I will never be below the title.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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