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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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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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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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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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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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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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 didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
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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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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
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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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Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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I work to stay alive.
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