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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
Actress
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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Hollywood
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Reality
More quotes by Bette Davis
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
Bette Davis
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.
Bette Davis
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
Bette Davis
I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
Bette Davis
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
Bette Davis
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis
Pray to God and say the lines.
Bette Davis
You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
Bette Davis
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.
Bette Davis
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis
The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.
Bette Davis
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
Bette Davis
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
Bette Davis
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette Davis
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis
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.
Bette Davis
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bette Davis
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis
I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Bette Davis
