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.
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I work to stay alive.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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 have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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