Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVISTemperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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I will never be below the title.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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