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Bette Davis

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I've always liked men better than women.


— Bette Davis


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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.


— Bette Davis


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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.


— Bette Davis


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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.


— Bette Davis


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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.


— Bette Davis


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


— Bette Davis


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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.


— Bette Davis


#sitting #up #wish

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.


— Bette Davis


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To look back is to relax one's vigil.


— Bette Davis


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


— Bette Davis


#fought #hollywood #i #me #pretty






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Claudette Colbert won the award for It Happened One Night but the uproar led to a change in Academy voting procedures the following year whereby nominations were determined by votes from all eligible members of a particular branch rather than by a smaller committee with results independently tabulated by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse. " The New York Times hailed her as "becoming one of the most interesting of our screen actresses". Eventually Davis brought her case to court in Britain hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros.

Until the late 1940s Bette Davis was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies known for her forceful and intense style. in 1932 and establiBette Davisd her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1999 Davis was placed second after Katharine Hepburn on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time.

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