Bette Davis Quotes
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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 was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.