Bette Davis Quotes

• If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

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• She’s the original good time who was had by all.

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• I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

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• Evil people…you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress—never to be forgotten.

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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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• Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.

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  Tags in Afraid, Marriage

• Sex is God’s joke on human beings.

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• It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

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• I am just too much.

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• The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.

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  The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.

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  Tags in Self-Confidence, Key, Accepting, Courage
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  Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

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  Tags in Actors And Acting, Athlete, Bigger

• People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

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• Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

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• Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times – almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I’ve seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

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  Tags in Psychoanalysis, Athlete, Actor

• I’ve lost my faith in science.

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  Tags in Athlete, Lost

• Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

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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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• 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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  Tags in Older, Men And Women

• This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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  Tags in Motto, Possibilities, Athlete, Mine

Bette Davis (69)

Birth:	5th April, 1908
Death:	6th October, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in cinema history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was reputed for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.

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• 1963 - Karen Kingsbury
• 1952 - Matthew Bright
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• 2007 - Richard Rorty
• 2007 - Stan Dale
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• 1982 - Satchel Paige
• 1970 - Abraham Maslow