I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISI’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.
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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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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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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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 may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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