Bette Davis Quotes

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Bette Davis

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • Life
  • Moments
  • My Life

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Work
  • Law
  • Lie

• I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Good
  • Want
  • Best

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Long
  • Character
  • Day

• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Nature
  • Changes

• I have my fashion empire to build.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Fashion
  • Build
  • Empire

• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Problem
  • Act
  • Nervous

• I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Up
  • Men
  • Book

• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Political
  • Retirement
  • Bear

• You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Age
  • Me

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Good
  • Want
  • Seeing

• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Women

• Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Lies
  • Mystery
  • Awful

• My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist
  • House
  • Brother
  • Childhood

• A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

  

  John Kasich
  • Great
  • Power
  • Religious

• Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

  

  Bette Davis
  • People
  • Actresses
  • Pretend