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.
BETTE DAVISI may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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