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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.

Bette Davis

You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Lose Talent Yourself
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Right Yourself
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Hell One Way Way
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Hollywood Important Legs
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Myself Woman
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS

Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
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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Business Enemy Myself Regret
It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate People Worth Yourself
Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Old
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Act Big Life
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVIS

Movie Reason
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

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play

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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