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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
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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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