My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISOh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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.
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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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 work to stay alive.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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