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Bette Davis

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Bette Davis received the Academy Award for Best Actress, an honor that recognized her work across a career that spanned film, stage, and television over several decades.

Born on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, Davis was a United States citizen who worked in the English language throughout her professional life. She attended Cushing Academy as part of her education before pursuing a career as an actor. Over time she worked not only in film but also on stage and on television, and she took on character roles in addition to leading parts. She also worked as an autobiographer and as a musician, suggesting a range of creative activity that extended beyond her acting work alone.

The awards Davis accumulated over the course of her career reflect how consistently her peers and the industry recognized her contributions. Beyond the Academy Award for Best Actress, she received an Emmy Award for her television work, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors. She also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That collection of honors spans different corners of the entertainment world — from the film academy to television's recording body to a presidential arts recognition — pointing to a career that moved across multiple performance formats rather than settling into just one.

Davis died on October 6, 1989, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame remains a fixed, public marker of the recognition she earned during her lifetime.

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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. It is endless.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. It is endless.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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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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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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead in a year.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead in a year.
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If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
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If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work
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I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.
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I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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