"I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task..."

-- James Woods

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“The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.”
“Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.”
“I have always loved too much, or not enough.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.”
“Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.”
“I'm a jeans and t-shirt type of girl.”
“The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.”
“Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.”

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