Bette Davis Quotes on Work

13 quotes

  1. We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?

  2. Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

  3. 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.

  4. I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

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

  6. I work to stay alive.

  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.

  8. Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

  9. The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'

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

  11. Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

  12. With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

  13. You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

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