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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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