I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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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 may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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