![Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.](/assets/img/quote-photos/bette-davis-she-was-so-brilliant-and-one-of-my-heroes-but-she-worked-a-ton-and.jpg)
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hero tired voice
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hero world wonder
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hero thinking hunting
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hero skills destined
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hero limits helping
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play done form
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play forget notes
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
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I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age. Charles Dickens
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