People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISYour luck is how you treat people.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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 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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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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