Bette Davis Quotes
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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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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It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
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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 am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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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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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.