The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVISIt’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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.
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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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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I will never be below the title.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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