Bette Davis Quotes

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

Bette Davis

• Business
• Star
• Monster

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

  

  Karen O
  • Pretty
  • Rock
  • Road

• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Forever

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Picture
  • Depression
  • Grief

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing
  • Calmness
  • Aggravating

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Know
  • Slow

• Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Difficult

• One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • School
  • Kids
  • Doing

• Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Miss
  • Type
  • Maybe

• I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Reputation

• AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

  

  Ice T
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Serious

• I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Different
  • Writing

• Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Voice
  • Start

• I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.

  

  John Patrick Shanley
  • Marine

• My daughter has fulfilled all of my dreams, because she has a BA and MBA in business. She's both a financial analyst and a plus-size model. She has the best of both worlds because, in modeling, you have to have something to fall back on.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • World
  • Business
  • She

• I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Fashion

• A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Words
  • English
  • Electricity

• In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Business
  • Star
  • Monster