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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Bette Davis
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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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.
Bette Davis
Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
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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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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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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
I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
Bette Davis
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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