With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVISYou know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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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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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 often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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