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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Dames
Goddamn
Nicest
Lived
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Dame

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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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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 believe one should be a woman at home.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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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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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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