The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVISSuccess is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I work to stay alive.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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