Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVISPleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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