The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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 never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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