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 DAVISPray to God and say the lines.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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 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!
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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