One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVISThe 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Mother 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.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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