Bette Davis Quotes

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

Bette Davis

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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

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

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• 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

• Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Hollywood
  • Toward
  • Idiocy

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • She
  • Light

• Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Experience
  • Expectations
  • Judgments

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

  

  Bette Davis
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood
  • Realism