You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I will never be below the title.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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She’s the original good time who was had by 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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I work to stay alive.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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