Bette Davis Quotes

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

Bette Davis

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• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Would
  • Wearing

• I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Wearing

• I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Always
  • Year
  • Actress

• When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Actress

• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Ready
  • Actress
  • Hits

• When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • America
  • Dad
  • Wanted

• I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Time
  • Model
  • Place

• We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Money
  • Actress
  • Machine

• [When asked about the best actresses from the current crop] There's Rani, then there's Preity, Based on work, Aishwarya... Priyanka is very good... Then there are the new girls like Lara and Katrina. [When asked his favorite and the best out the lot] As an actor? Rani Mukerji. [Smiles]

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Actor

• I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Ambition
  • Musician
  • Actress

• When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Desire
  • Learn
  • Famous

• What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Experience
  • Actress
  • Expert

• I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

  

  Jane Elliott
  • Actress
  • Los Angeles
  • Surgery

• I'd hate wearing suits every day.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Wearing
  • Suits

• One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Balance

• I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Think
  • Lucky

• I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

  

  Bette Davis
  • Actress
  • Traveling
  • Wearing