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 DAVISYou should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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 have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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