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

Bette Davis

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.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Yourself
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 DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Heart Reality
Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVIS

Luck People Treat Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Mom Phone Year
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Boy Interest Myself See Woman
I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Title Worth
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS

Born Children Men Sex
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Heaven Myself
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVIS

Negative Order Thinking

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