Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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 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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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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