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 by Bette Davis

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Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years...

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years...

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all...

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all...

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your...

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your...

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

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

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what...

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what...

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

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

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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

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

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now...

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now...

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given...

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given...

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

Your luck is how you treat people

Your luck is how you treat people

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them -...

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them -...

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

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

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

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success...

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue,...

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue,...