Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISSuccess only breeds a new goal
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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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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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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