Bette Davis Quotes
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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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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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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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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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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 have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.