Bette Davis Quotes
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Success only breeds a new goal.
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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 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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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than 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.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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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 is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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On gay men: Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
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You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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 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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Yes, burn your bridges.