Bette Davis Quotes
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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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 work to stay alive.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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 lost my faith in science.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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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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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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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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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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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.