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.
BETTE DAVISI’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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 should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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 would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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