What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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 have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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