Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISThe real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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 will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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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.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Some 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.
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