You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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!
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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