I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISI’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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It’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.
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I will never be below the title.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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 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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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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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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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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