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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.
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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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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Old age is no place for sissies.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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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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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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