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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
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Film Actor
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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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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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I've lost my faith in science.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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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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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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