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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
Actress
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Character Actor
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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Life
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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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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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It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.
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You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Old age ain't for sissies
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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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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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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