Bette Davis Quotes

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Bette Davis

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• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• New York is my home.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Home
  • New
  • New York

• I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Career
  • Kind

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • School
  • Want
  • Actor

• God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • True
  • Religion

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • History

• It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

  

  Anna Julia Cooper
  • World
  • Black
  • Red

• To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

  

  Eli Pariser
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Ambition

• If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Night
  • Golf

• I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Black

• One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

  

  Dave Van Ronk
  • Star
  • Memories

• The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Car
  • Bible

• I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Running
  • Patience

• One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Character
  • Story

• If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Life
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Wasted
  • Same Way

• I really love yoga. I love the mindfulness of it, where not only are you exercising your body, but you're also building that mind/body connection as far as being aware of every movement - what your body's doing, how your body's feeling.

  

  Miranda Rae Mayo
  • Connection
  • Being
  • Building

• There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Champagne
  • Helps
  • Woman's Life