Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVISMen 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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.
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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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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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