Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVISSuccess is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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