The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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