Bette Davis Quotes

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  When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
• My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
• Old age is no place for sissies.
• This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
• I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
• Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
• A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
• 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.
• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
• Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
• I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
• 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.
• I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
• I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
• I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
• I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
• I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
• I work to stay alive.
• The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
• Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
• I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
• If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
• People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
• Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
• 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.
• Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.



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