I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISGetting old is not for sissies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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