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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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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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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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 have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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