In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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