If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVISThe real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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.
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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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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