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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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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Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Broadway
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Anyone
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Work
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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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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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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 should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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