You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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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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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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