An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVISI was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I will never be below the title.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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