If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVISGay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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 is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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