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Bette Davis

autobiographer, character actor, stage actor, film actor, television actor, actor, musician

1908 – 1989

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known 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. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 1999, Davis was placed second on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema, behind Katharine Hepburn.

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To look back is to relax one's vigil.

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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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

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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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I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

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I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

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Old age is no place for sissies.

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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Bette Davis

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Bette Davis

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.

Bette Davis

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Bette Davis

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Bette Davis

Strong women only marry weak men.

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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Bette Davis

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

Bette Davis

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Bette Davis

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

Bette Davis

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.

Bette Davis

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Bette Davis