Bette Davis Quotes
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I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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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 was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
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I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
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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.