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.
BETTE DAVISIf everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I will never be below the title.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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