Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVISYour luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVISYou can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVISI survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISMy passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISSome 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.
BETTE DAVISGood actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISThe act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISIf everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISI wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVISYou mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISShe’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
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