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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
Actor
Actress
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Character Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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Crawford
Joan

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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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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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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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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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Old age is no place for sissies.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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