You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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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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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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