I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVISIt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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