Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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