I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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I work to stay alive.
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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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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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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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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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