Bette Davis quotes - page 2

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. (Bette Davis)
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am just too much. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. View quote
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I think Mr. Reagan has done very well under very difficult circumstances. He's had terrific problems physically and he's managed them very well. But my God, the witch hunt today! Is there any human being alive who hasn't done something bad in their youth - like maybe smoke marijuana once? And this man (Judge Ginsburg) found it necessary to admit it! My God! It would be like Mr. Jack Kennedy sitting down and listing all the women (he knew) before he got in. View quote
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I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life. View quote
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Bette Davis)
Getting old is not for sissies. View quote
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. View quote
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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. View quote
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? View quote
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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. View quote
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Success only breeds a new goal. View quote
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go. View quote
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. View quote
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else. View quote
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I will never be below the title. (Bette Davis)
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star. View quote
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. View quote
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. View quote
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. View quote
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