Bette Davis Quotes
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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 real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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 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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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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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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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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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.