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| A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. Bette Davis Quotes |
| An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis Quotes |
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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. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Everybody has a heart. Except some people. Bette Davis Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. Bette Davis Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. Bette Davis Quotes |
| 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. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I am just too much. Bette Davis Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I survived because I was tougher than anybody else. Bette Davis Quotes |
| 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. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I will never be below the title. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I work to stay alive. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I've always liked men better than women. Bette Davis Quotes |
| I've lost my faith in science. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. Bette Davis Quotes |
| In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star. Bette Davis Quotes |
| In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! Bette Davis Quotes |
| It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Love is not enough. It must be The Foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. Bette Davis Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| Old age is no place for sissies. Bette Davis Quotes |
| People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Sex is God's joke on human beings. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Strong women only marry weak men. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers. Bette Davis Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. Bette Davis Quotes |
| The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies. Bette Davis Quotes |
| There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| This has always been a Motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis Quotes |
| To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis Quotes |
| To look back is to relax one's vigil. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. Bette Davis Quotes |
| When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies. Bette Davis Quotes |
| With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. Bette Davis Quotes |
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| Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Expensive clothes are a waste of money. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I always feel Like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I can't stand most things that I see. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| I need to go where people are serious about acting. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I think your self emerges more clearly over time. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I want to feel my life while I'm in it. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| I'm all over the place. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Instant gratification is not soon enough. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| My family really does come first. It always did and always will. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| The work will stand, no matter what. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. Meryl Streep Quotes |
| You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. Meryl Streep Quotes |
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| Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| Fame is a bitch, man. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. Brad Pitt Quotes |
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| I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like? Brad Pitt Quotes |
| I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth. Brad Pitt Quotes |
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| Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. Brad Pitt Quotes |
| You must lose everything in order to gain anything. Brad Pitt Quotes |
