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

Quote by Bette Davis

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I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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

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

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

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

I've always liked men better than women.

I've always liked men better than women.

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...

Old age is no place for sissies.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of...

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of...

I will never be below the title.

I will never be below the title.

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...

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do...

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do...

Strong women only marry weak men.

Strong women only marry weak men.

I work to stay alive.

I work to stay alive.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.