I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISI work to stay alive.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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 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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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