Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVISYou should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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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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