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.
BETTE DAVISI firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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