The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVISTemperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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