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.
BETTE DAVISHome is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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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 you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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