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
- 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.
- Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- 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.
- Strong women only marry weak men.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
- I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Best Quotes
- I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
- I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
- If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
- Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.