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.
BETTE DAVISIt’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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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