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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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I've always liked men better than women.
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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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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis
Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
Bette Davis
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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 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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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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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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I work to stay alive.
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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
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis
I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
Bette Davis
If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
Bette Davis
