Bette Davis Quotes

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Bette Davis

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• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Fighting
  • See
  • Rise Above

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Person
  • Expect

• I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Enough

• Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Attention
  • Constitution
  • Independence

• You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Person

• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Growth
  • Friendship

• I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Pain
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Movies
  • Original

• No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Excitement
  • Deny

• Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Satisfy

• I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Work
  • Look

• Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thoughts
  • Unknown

• I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Job
  • Universe

• Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.

  

  A. Lee Martinez
  • Dying
  • Accomplishment

• I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program. Then I imagined I'd be a lawyer. I was gonna go to law school.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • School
  • Law
  • Lawyer

• I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Good
  • Director
  • Script