Bette Davis Quotes
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I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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 firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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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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Old age is no place for sissies.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.