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.
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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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 guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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