Bette Davis Quotes

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Bette Davis

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• I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Interesting
  • Ideas
  • Roles

• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Back

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Way
  • End
  • Belt

• May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Work
  • Country
  • May

• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Pride

• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Love
  • Today

• The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Now
  • Destroy
  • Become

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Me

• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Jew

• The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Children
  • Death
  • Opportunity

• I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Lost

• The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Reasonable

• Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Laws
  • Judges

• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Daily

• One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Movies
  • Actors
  • Great Things

• I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

  

  Judah Friedlander
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Movies

• 'Dirty Dancing' is one of my favorite movies, and I was in love with Patrick Swayze for years, but I tried to stay out of his way and never to meet him because I knew if I did, he'd want to talk about yogurt or some weird dietary restriction or something.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Dancing

• I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Know
  • Me
  • Chicago

• The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Movies
  • Reasons
  • Broadway