Bette Davis - Life Quotes

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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. 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.

Bette Davis
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is — and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Bette Davis
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Bette Davis
People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved.... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

Bette Davis
I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.

Bette Davis
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Bette Davis
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.

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

Bette Davis