What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISThe real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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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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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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