Bette Davis Quotes
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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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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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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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Old age is no place for sissies.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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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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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
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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 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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.