Bette Davis Quotes

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

Bette Davis

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• I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Look

• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kind
  • Hollywood
  • Fail

• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • Talent

• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Hollywood
  • Italy

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Me
  • Talent

• It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Belief

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Hollywood
  • Texas

• Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

  

  Sally Field
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Ever

• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Talent

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hollywood

• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Know
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Done
  • Think
  • Myself

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Think
  • Story
  • Talent

• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace
  • Desires
  • Achieved

• What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Talent
  • Hollywood
  • Blondes