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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
Actor
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Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.
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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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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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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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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