I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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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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