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

Bette Davis

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.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Stars Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVIS

God Prayer
Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS

Evil Forget People Yourself
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVIS

Mean Trust White Wine
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVIS

Courage Material Self Confidence
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Believe Children Myself Parents
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVIS

Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage

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