You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVISIt’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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