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.
BETTE DAVISSome young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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