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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.

Bette Davis

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVIS

Future Life Past
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Right Yourself
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Moments Sailing
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
BETTE DAVIS

Family Hollywood Myself Young
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Movie Reason
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
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 would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVIS

Director Fire Goodness Herself Myself
Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVIS

Luck People Treat Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
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
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVIS

Disappointment Failure Success
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVIS

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

Character Myself

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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