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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

Bette Davis

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVIS

Luck People Treat Yourself
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS

Empowerment Inspirational Women
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS

Born Children Men Sex
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Time Women
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
BETTE DAVIS

Attractive Men Old Woman
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVIS

Expectations Happiness
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Act Big Life
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS

Evil Forget People Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

I Miss You Missing Pain True
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVIS

Movie Reason
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVIS

Future Life Past
I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Beginning Myself Time War
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS

Breakup I Miss You Love
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspiration Memories
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck

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