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 DAVISThe key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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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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