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

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.

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.

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...

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...

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In...

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In...

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In...

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In...

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

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

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

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success...

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I work to stay alive.

I work to stay alive.

I've lost my faith in science.

I've lost my faith in science.

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.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them -...

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them -...

I will never be below the title.

I will never be below the title.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all...

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all...

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

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...