Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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