I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
BETTE DAVISIf men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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