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.
BETTE DAVISWhat a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Success only breeds a new goal
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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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 luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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 can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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