My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISI survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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