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.
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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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I work to stay alive.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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I will never be below the title.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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