Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISI’ve always liked men better than women.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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 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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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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 work to stay alive.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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