Strong women only marry weak men.
BETTE DAVISThere are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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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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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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