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 DAVISI firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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