One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
BETTE DAVISPray to God and say the lines.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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