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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
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Character Actor
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Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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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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[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
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