If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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