If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVISWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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 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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