Bette Davis Quotes

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Bette Davis

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• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Business
  • Dad
  • College

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Animal

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Want
  • Convince

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Sword

• It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Country
  • Hard
  • Record

• I don't plan my roles or my films.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Films
  • Roles
  • Plan

• The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Sports

• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Always
  • Years
  • Working

• Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Up
  • Past
  • Service

• Seriously, Shane? Ditto? That's the best you can do?" Shane and Michael exchanged identical looks and shrugs. Guys. "Let me show you idiots how it's done," Eve said, and hugged Claire fiercely. She kissed her on the cheek. "I love you, CB. Please take care of yourself, okay?" "I love you, too," Claire said, and suddenly her throat felt tight and her eyes burned with tears. "I really do." Shane and Michael watched them with identical expressions of blank bemusement, and finally Shane said, "So basically, it's what I said. Ditto.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Best
  • Idiots
  • Expressions

• Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Sin

• By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

  

  Leo Ornstein

• The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Important

• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Scripts