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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Bette Davis

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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Mom Phone Year
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS

Lucky Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
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!
BETTE DAVIS

Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVIS

Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Difficult Success
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVIS

Freedom Myself
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS

Enough Myself Thinking
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS

Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVIS

Bored Friendship Tears
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Dream Inspirational Life
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Stage Actors Wonderful

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