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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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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
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
Bette Davis -
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis -
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
Bette Davis -
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
Bette Davis
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
Bette Davis -
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette Davis -
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
Bette Davis -
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis -
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis -
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bette Davis
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis -
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
Bette Davis -
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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.
Bette Davis -
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