Bette Davis Quotes
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.
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My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
