Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I work to stay alive.
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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 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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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