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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.
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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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Old age ain't for sissies
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
Bette Davis
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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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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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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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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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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