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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.

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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[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've always liked men better than women.
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I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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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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