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Bette Davis [1908-1989] American

Rank: 101
Actress

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 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.

Work, Funny, Marriage, Movies, Age, Best, Chance, Famous, Happiness, Home, Men, Money, Respect, Romantic, Space, Success, Time, Truth

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This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.	Work	101
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.		102
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?	Best, Time	103
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.	Funny	104
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.	Movies, Work	105
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.	Space	106
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.		107
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.		108
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.		109
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.		110
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.	Marriage	111
Old age is no place for sissies.	Age	112
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	113
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.	Truth	114
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.		115
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.	Funny, Marriage, Respect	116
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.		117
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.		118
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.	Happiness	119
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.	Home	120
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.	Chance, Money, Work	121
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.		122
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.	Romantic	123
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.		124
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.	Men	125
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.		126
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.		201
Sex is God's joke on human beings.		202
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.	Movies	203
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.		204
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!		205
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.		206
I've always liked men better than women.		207
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.		208
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.		209
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.		210
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.		211
To look back is to relax one's vigil.		212
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.		213
I've lost my faith in science.		214
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.		215
That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.		216
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.		217
I am just too much.		218
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.		219
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.		220
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.	Famous	221
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.		222
Strong women only marry weak men.		223
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.		224
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.		225
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.		226
I work to stay alive.	Work	301
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.		302
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.		303
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.		304
I will never be below the title.		305
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.		306
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.		307

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