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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Bette Davis

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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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People
Except
Everybody

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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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As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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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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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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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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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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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I work to stay alive.
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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