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 DAVISAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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