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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

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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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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.
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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.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I work to stay alive.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I've lost my faith in science.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Old age ain't for sissies
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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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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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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