Bette Davis Quotes

I've always liked men better than women.

Bette Davis

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Men
  • Very
  • Other

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • War
  • Worst
  • Objectives

• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Best

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Stronger

• Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Science
  • Attention

• Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • House
  • Man

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Society

• There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Risk

• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Life
  • Today
  • Television

• I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Theatre

• No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Black

• Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

  

  E. Lynn Harris
  • Fear
  • Faith
  • Memories

• I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

  

  Kristin Hersh
  • Women

• The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

  

  John Stuart Blackie
  • Men
  • Water
  • Wise

• Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • World
  • Successful
  • Miracle

• I've always liked men better than women.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Men
  • Women