Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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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 have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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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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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.