I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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