Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis, 1908 - 1989
Studio publicity still (ca. 1940)
Born: 5 April 1908, Lowell, Massachusetts
Died: 6 October 1989, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. permalink
Bette Davis - The Lonely Life: An Autobiography (1962) - Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. permalink
Bette Davis - An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring.... I ought to know. permalink
Bette Davis - At fifty, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being sixty was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my seventieth birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door. permalink
Bette Davis - Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. permalink
Bette Davis - 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. permalink
Bette Davis - Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you've been called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all. permalink
Bette Davis - Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. permalink
Bette Davis - Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child ... if you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. permalink
Bette Davis - 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. permalink
Bette Davis - Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother! permalink
Bette Davis - Everybody has a heart. Except some people. permalink
Bette Davis - First time was when I was 26 and got married — and it was hell waiting. permalink
Bette Davis - 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. permalink
Bette Davis - Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. permalink
Bette Davis
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