You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVISAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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 never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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Some 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.
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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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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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