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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS

Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVIS

Fun Pain Yourself
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVIS

Disappointment Failure Success
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS

Empowerment Inspirational Women
The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
BETTE DAVIS

Space Thinking War
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 DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Act Big Life
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Difficult Success
I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVIS

God Prayer
It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
BETTE DAVIS

Alone Independent Man Sex
It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate People Worth Yourself

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