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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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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 have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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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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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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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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I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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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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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.