Bette Davis /Rut Elizabet/ quotes Born: 04/05/1908 Died: 10/06/1989 Country: usa

• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. (Bette Davis) [attempt/order]
• My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. (Bette Davis) [aggression]
• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. (Bette Davis) [love]
• If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. (Bette Davis) [child]
• This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. (Bette Davis) [attempt/order]
• We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. (Bette Davis) [movie/start]
• The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. (Bette Davis) [collectivism]
• Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. (Bette Davis) [discipline/child/needs/love]
• 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)
• 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. (Bette Davis) [chance/life/money]
• “I will never be below the title.” (Bette Davis) [willpower]
• “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'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.” (Bette Davis) [kiss]
• “I survived because I was tougher than anybody else” (Bette Davis)
• “I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed” (Bette Davis) [think/more/sex]
• “You can't say I didn't fall for you.” (Bette Davis)
• “You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.” (Bette Davis) [think]
• “Everybody has a heart. Except some people.” (Bette Davis)
• “A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else” (Bette Davis) [happiness]
• “My darling,it is late and I am very tired of youth,love,and self-sacrafice.” (Bette Davis)
• “The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.” (Bette Davis)
• “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.” (Bette Davis) [life/challenges]
• “I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.” (Bette Davis)
• “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.” (Bette Davis)
• “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.” (Bette Davis) [more/start/women/advantage]
• “Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.” (Bette Davis)
• “When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.” (Bette Davis) [opinion/opinion]
• “Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night!” (Bette Davis)
• “Sex is God's joke on human beings.” (Bette Davis) [joke/human]
• “You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? "She did it the hard way."” (Bette Davis)
• “I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.” (Bette Davis)

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