I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISThe act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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