If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISStrong women only marry weak men.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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The 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.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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’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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