The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVISOh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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