I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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 secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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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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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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