I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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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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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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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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 everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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