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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

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS

Evil Forget People Yourself
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Stage Actors Wonderful
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
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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Marriage Money Sex
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
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
Pray to God and say the lines.
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God Prayer
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Freedom Myself
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Heaven Myself
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspirational Reality
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Death Inspiration Memories
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Home Yourself
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS

End Fame Ourselves Stars
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS

Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS

Born Children Men Sex
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Moments Sailing
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Death Gravestone Herself Way
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Disappointment Failure Success
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
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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Experience Mom Phone Year
Success only breeds a new goal
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Born Goal Success
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Appearance Relax
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Act Big Life

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.

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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.

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