Bette Davis Quotes

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Bette Davis

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• Hollywood
• Realism

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• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Old
  • Now
  • Hollywood

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Observation

• Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Wanted

• I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.

  

  Sally Field
  • Wanted
  • Her
  • Bit

• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Advice
  • Wanted
  • Welcome

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Realism

• I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Hollywood
  • Belong
  • Rat

• Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Hollywood

• My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • World
  • Dad

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • You
  • Commitment
  • Hollywood

• I've never wanted to be the boss.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Boss

• I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Wanted
  • Guitar
  • Learned

• I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Know
  • Pain
  • Moral

• No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Wanted

• Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Jobs
  • Firsts
  • Hollywood

• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Way
  • Bang

• Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Place
  • Company
  • Sickness

• Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.

  

  Will Hobbs
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Affirmation

• Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood
  • Realism