Bette Davis Quotes
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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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.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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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.
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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.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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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.
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I don't read books.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.
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It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.
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Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
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A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
