|| Bette Davis ||

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

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"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."

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"I am just too much."

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

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"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."


(Lmao...dang.)

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


(I wasn't gonna say it but...)


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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."

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"It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people."

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"Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic."

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"If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right."

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"You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation."

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"I want to die with my high heels on, still in action."

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"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

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"It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."

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"You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get."


(Amen, sister. -_-)


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"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."

(Relatable. Except switch 'confidence' with quietness.)

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"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."

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"They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself."

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