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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Bette Davis

Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Old
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS

Faith Lost Science
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Necessary Thinking Writing
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVIS

God Prayer
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVIS

Negative Order Thinking
I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Beginning Myself Time War
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS

Born Children Men Sex
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVIS

Future Life Past
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Secret

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