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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis
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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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.
Bette Davis -
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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Bette Davis
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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
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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.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Bette Davis
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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
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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
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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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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.
Bette Davis