People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVIS
Temperament 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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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