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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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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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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 went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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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 am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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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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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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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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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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