I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I will never be below the title.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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