Quotes by Davis, Bette

"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve]"

Davis, Bette on drivers and driving   

"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."

Davis, Bette on fame
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"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Davis, Bette on impossibility
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"The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart."

Davis, Bette on acting and actors   

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

Davis, Bette on love
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"I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year."

Davis, Bette on marriage   

"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

Davis, Bette on parents and parenting
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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."

Davis, Bette on passion   

"I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later."

Davis, Bette on plays   

"This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Davis, Bette on possibilities   

"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."

Davis, Bette on sex
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"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."

Davis, Bette on weakness
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"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."

Davis, Bette on work   

"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."

Davis, Bette on work   

"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."

Davis, Bette on children   

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

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