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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette Davis -
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
Bette Davis -
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis -
I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
Bette Davis -
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette Davis -
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
Bette Davis -
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette Davis
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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.
Bette Davis -
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
Bette Davis -
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
Bette Davis -
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
Bette Davis -
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis -
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis -
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
Bette Davis -
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
Bette Davis -
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.
Bette Davis -
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.
Bette Davis -
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bette Davis
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis -
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.
Bette Davis -
Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
Bette Davis -
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
Bette Davis