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 real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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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’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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