If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVISMen become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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