If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISTemperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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 was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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