My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS
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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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