Bette Davis Quotes
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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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've always liked men better than women.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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 would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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.