Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
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The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.
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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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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.