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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring 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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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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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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
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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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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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