Yes, burn your bridges.
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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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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