Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVISPlaying 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.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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