Bette Davis Quotes
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
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I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.
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The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
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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.
