If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVISMen become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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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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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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