I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISAt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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