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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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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.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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