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I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

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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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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
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You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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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.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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