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.
Quote by Bette Davis
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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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Bette Davis Quotes
- 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.
- Old age is no place for sissies.
- Strong women only marry weak men.
- Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
- Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
- Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
- This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
- Money for me today does not really matter.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
- Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
- Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.