Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVISMother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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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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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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