Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
BETTE DAVISI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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 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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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.
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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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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