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Bette Davis

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’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
BETTE DAVIS

Necessary Thinking Writing
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVIS

Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage
It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS

I Miss You Missing Pain True
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
BETTE DAVIS

Heart People
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Time Women
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspirational Reality
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Stage Actors Wonderful
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVIS

Disappointment Failure Success
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS

Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
BETTE DAVIS

Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Heaven Myself
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
BETTE DAVIS

Attractive Men Old Woman
You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Lose Talent Yourself
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVIS

Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVIS

Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Beginning Cake Old Time
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Mom Phone Year

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