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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.
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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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 often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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 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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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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