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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Bette Davis
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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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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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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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
Bette Davis
I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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