If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISMy passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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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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