Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Quote by Bette Davis
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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Bette Davis Quotes
- 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 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 work to stay alive.
- Sex is God's joke on human beings.
- The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
- In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
- 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.
- I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
- Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Best Quotes
- My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
- Business is a combination of war and sport.
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
- As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
- I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
- These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
- Change is the end result of all true learning.
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.