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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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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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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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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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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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