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.
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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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 thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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