I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISI was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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