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 DAVISIt’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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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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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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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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