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Quotes of Bette Davis 1944 American Political Activist
Bette Davis Photo Gallery
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“Old age is no place for sissies.” (age)
“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” (passion)
“From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.” (sexuality)
“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.” (success)
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“Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.” (age)
“The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin” (grave)
“Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.” (people)
“I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.” (heart)
“I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.” (friends and friendsh)
“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.” (words)
“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.” (unknown)
“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.” (work)
“I work to stay alive.” (work)
“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.” (acting and actors)
“Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.” (unknown)
“Pray to God and say the lines.” (god)
“I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.” (food)
“I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.” (movies)
“Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” (discipline)
“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.” (acting and actors)
“Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother!” (acting and actors)
“Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.” (appreciation)
“"Oh, I'm rather fond of him that way. It shows that deep down he's a fake." -on her graying 1935 Oscar for Jezebel.” (unknown)
“I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.” (celebration)
“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.” (romance and romantic)
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