I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVISIt’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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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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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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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