Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I work to stay alive.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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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 may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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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.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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.
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I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.