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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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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[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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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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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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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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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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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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 work to stay alive.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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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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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.
Bette Davis
You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
Bette Davis
I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
Bette Davis
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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