Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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