Bette Davis Quotes
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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I've lost my faith in science.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.