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.
BETTE DAVISI want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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