It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVISI’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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I work to stay alive.
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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.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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I will never be below the title.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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 has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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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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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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