I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISThe out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I work to stay alive.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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 never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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 have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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