Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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 will never be below the title.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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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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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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