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| Bette Davis
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door. Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.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.Everybody has a heart. Except some people. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve]Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night! Gary [Merrill] was a macho man, but none of my husbands was ever man enough to become Mr Bette Davis. 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. 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.I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.I must start wearing a watch. I never have you know. I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative. 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. I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. Old age ain't no place for sissies.Peformance number 1,000, if I play it that long, will take place in a well-padded booby-hatch. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Sex is God's joke on human beings.Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.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. This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. 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.Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.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. Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. |
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