Bette Davis Quotes
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Success only breeds a new goal.
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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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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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I work to stay alive.