Bette Davis The Little Foxes 5 1941
by David Lee Guss
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Bette Davis The Little Foxes 5 1941
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why [Joan Crawford] always plays ladies."
[when told not to speak ill of the dead] "Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!"
[on sex] "God's biggest joke on human beings."
[commenting on the death of long-time nemesis Joan Crawford] "You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good."
[commenting about her mother, an aspiring actress] "I had to be the monster for both of us."
"If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world."
"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life."
[Joan Crawford] "and I have never been warm friends. We are not simpatico. I admire her, and yet I feel uncomfortable with her. To me, she is the personification of the Movie Star. I have always felt her greatest performance is Crawford being Crawford."
[after having blown the same line several times in Hollywood Canteen (1944), in which she plays herself] "I don't know what's wrong with me, but I think I just can't play myself. I don't know how! But, if you give me a drink - give me a cigarette - give me a gun - I'll play any old bag you want me to. I just can't play myself!"
'Beyond the Forest (1949) was a terrible movie! It had the longest death scene ever seen on the screen."
'I was a person who couldn't make divorce work. For me, there's nothing lonelier than a turned-down toilet seat."
[before taking her final flight in 1989] "I want to die with my high heels on, still in action."
'I always had the will to win. I felt it baking cookies. They had to be the best cookies anyone baked."
"When I die, they'll probably auction off my false eyelashes.;'
"My favorite person to work with was Claude Rains."
[on John Wayne] "I certainly would have given anything to have worked with John Wayne. He's the most attractive man who ever walked the earth, I think."
[on Errol Flynn] "He was just beautiful . . . Errol. He himself openly said, "I don't know really anything about acting,' and I admire his honesty because he's absolutely right." - Bette Davis, 1908-1989
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