The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVISThere are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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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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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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