The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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.
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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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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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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