A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISEverybody has a heart. Except some people.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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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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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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