I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVISThere 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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