I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISGood actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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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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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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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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