Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVISI may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I work to stay alive.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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