If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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