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

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Stage Actors Wonderful
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVIS

Art Herself Opinion Women
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVIS

Courage Material Self Confidence
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Dream Inspirational Life
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Alone Independent Man Sex
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate 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
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Space Thinking War
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVIS

Expectations Happiness
Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS

Evil Forget People Yourself

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