Showing All Bette Davis Quotes

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Quote #1:	"If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent."
Quote #2:	"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."
Quote #3:	"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
Quote #4:	"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."
Quote #5:	"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
Quote #6:	"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."
Quote #7:	"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."
Quote #8:	"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."
Quote #9:	"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose."
Quote #10:	"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Quote #11:	"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."
Quote #12:	"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life."
Quote #13:	"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together."