Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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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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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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