If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISIf you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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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.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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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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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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