I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
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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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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