To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISSuccess is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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