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.

Quote by Bette Davis

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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure....

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure....

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it...

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it...

Old age is no place for sissies.

Old age is no place for sissies.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare...

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare...

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given...

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given...

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down...

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down...

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it...

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it...

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of...

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of...

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me...

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me...

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.