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 DAVISHome is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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