One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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’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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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