Bette Davis Quotes
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre.
(1908 - 1989)
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
[Happiness]
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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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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
[Attempt]
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you've been called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
[Funny]
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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.
[Discipline]
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
[Against]
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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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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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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 don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
[Movies]
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I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
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I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for 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.
[The Future]
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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