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.
BETTE DAVISAt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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