Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
BETTE DAVISI’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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It’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.
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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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 was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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