I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVISYour luck is how you treat people.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I work to stay alive.
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I will never be below the title.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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