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'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Important
  • Point
  • 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

• Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Feeling
  • Friend
  • Beginning

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Fun

• The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • World
  • Emerge
  • National Socialist

• 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