I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISFasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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