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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

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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
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Sweater
Sweaters
Dramatic
Fill
Opinion

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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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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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 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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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