Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISIf everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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