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Bette Davis

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Bette Davis

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

Work
Bette Davis

I work to stay alive.

Work
Bette Davis

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

Work
Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Work
Bette Davis

I've always liked men better than women.

Women
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.

Truth
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.

Success
Bette Davis

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

Movies
Bette Davis

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

Movies
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.

Money
Bette Davis

Strong women only marry weak men.

Men
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.

Men
Bette Davis

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Marriage
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.

Marriage
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.

Home
Bette Davis

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

Happiness
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.

Great
Bette Davis

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

God
Bette Davis

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

Funny
Bette Davis

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

Funny
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