Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISI survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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