Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVISDramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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.
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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.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Some 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.
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