Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVISIf everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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