Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISSome young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I will never be below the title.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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.
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