People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISOne 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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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 wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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