If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISI am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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 out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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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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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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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