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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
Life
Actors
Faces
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette Davis
Gay
Nothing
I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis
Men
Women
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette Davis
People
Heart
I work to stay alive.
Bette Davis
Work
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.
Bette Davis
Home
Jungle
World
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Work
Order
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis
Marriage
Now
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis
Life
Acting
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
Happiness
Want
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.
Bette Davis
Hell
Waiting
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis
Day
Today
That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
Bette Davis
Old
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis
Time
Baby
Stairs
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis
Life
Key