Bette Davis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“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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“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
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“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”
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“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
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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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“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.”
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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.”
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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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“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
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“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”
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“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.”
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“I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.”
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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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“I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.”
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“We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.”
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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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“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
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“I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.”
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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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“Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.”
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“I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.”
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“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”
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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'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.”
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“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”
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