Bette Davis Quotes
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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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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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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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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You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.