If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISShe’s the original good time who was had by all.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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