Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVISAlmost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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