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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work

Bette Davis was an American actress, known for her performances in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history.

Actress | American

Born: 1908-04-05 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Died: October 6, 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Old age is no place for sissies.

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age

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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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.

Bette Davis

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

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I've lost my faith in science.

Bette Davis

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.

Bette Davis

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Bette Davis

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

Bette Davis

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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god

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Bette Davis

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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men

Strong women only marry weak men.

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men

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

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

Bette Davis

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Bette Davis

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

Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Bette Davis

I've lost my faith in science.

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

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Bette Davis

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.

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

Strong women only marry weak men.

Bette Davis

I've always liked men better than women.

Bette Davis

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.

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

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Bette Davis

I work to stay alive.

Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Bette Davis

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