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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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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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[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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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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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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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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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 often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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