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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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 only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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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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