Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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