Bette Davis Quotes

• I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

  Bette Davis

  Tags in Athlete, Brando, Marlon

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Famous

• I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

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  Tags in Tougher, Athlete, Survived

• I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democrat, Athlete, Across

• I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bed, Satin, Packs, Shoulder

• I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Pal, Tears

• I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting and Actors, Weep, Remember

• I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.

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  Tags in Actress

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Professional, Enemies, Regret

• I am just too much.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just

• 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.

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  Topics in Success, Work

  Tags in Eternity, Athlete, Seeds

• Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

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  Tags in Hollywood, Realism, Athlete

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Worked, Faces, Actor

• Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Liberation, Against

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Waiting, Hell

• Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

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  Tags in Some People

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Jungle, World

• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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  Tags in Possibilities, Impossibility

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

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  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Athlete, Affair, Boring, Marriage

• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Athlete, Bigger

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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Births

• 1940 - Norm Dicks
• 1962 - William Anthony Perry
• 1943 - Steven Bochco
• 1952 - Susan Estrich
• 1977 - Rene Redzepi

Deaths

• 1985 - Paul Castellano
• 1998 - William Gaddis
• 1944 - Philip Guedalla
• 1945 - Giovanni Agnelli
• 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham