It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
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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I work to stay alive.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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