Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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