I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISI think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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