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Bette Davis Quotes
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Actress Quotes
Category:
American Actress Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 5, 1908
Date of Death:
October 6, 1989
Nationality:
American
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Bette Davis

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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

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.
Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette Davis

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.
Bette Davis

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette Davis

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette Davis

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis

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.
Bette Davis

I am just too much.
Bette Davis

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.
Bette Davis

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette Davis

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Bette Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
Bette Davis

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis

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