There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVISI have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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 want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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.
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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.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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Discipline 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.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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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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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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