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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 Davis

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVIS

Death Gravestone Herself Way
Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVIS

Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Necessary Thinking Writing
I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS

Faith Lost Science
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Movie Stars
I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Title Worth
The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
BETTE DAVIS

Space Thinking War
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS

Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Enemy Myself Regret
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Moments Sailing
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking

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.

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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.

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