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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.

Bette Davis

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Stars Yourself
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVIS

Movie Reason
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Act Big Life
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVIS

Right Yourself
It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate People Worth Yourself
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck
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.
BETTE DAVIS

I Miss You Missing Pain True
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Boy Interest Myself See Woman
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Beginning Myself Time War
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS

Lucky Myself
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose

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