The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVISThe act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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 uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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It’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.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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