There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVISI’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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