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Bette Davis

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Deep Hate People
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Goodness Time Women
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
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Character Myself
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Death Gravestone Herself Way
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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Art Artist Himself Human
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Actors Heart Reality
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
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Dull Pretty Yourself
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
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
BETTE DAVIS

Art Baby Entertainment
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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Experience Mom Phone Year
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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