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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspirational Reality
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Attractive Men Old Woman
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVIS

Alive Myself
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVIS

Right Yourself
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVIS

Death Gravestone Herself Way
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
BETTE DAVIS

Heart People
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Mom Phone Year
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS

Enough Myself Thinking

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

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