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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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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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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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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 don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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.
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I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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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 think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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