I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISPleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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There 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.
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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 guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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