What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISDiscipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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