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Bette Davis

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."

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"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"

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"Strong women only marry weak men."
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"I've lost my faith in science."
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"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."
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"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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"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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"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."
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"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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"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."
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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."
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