“I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.”

—  Bette Davis

Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) "Bette Davis smoking over `Stepmother' role", Houston Chronicle, p. 10.

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film and television actress from the United States 1908–1989

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