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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
Actress
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Character Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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Fill
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More quotes by Bette Davis
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
Bette Davis
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Bette Davis
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.
Bette Davis
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis
I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
Bette Davis
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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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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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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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
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I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis
Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
Bette Davis
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis
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
