Bette Davis Quotes

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Bette Davis

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Going
  • Places
  • Where

• I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Hungry
  • Eater

• I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Hair

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Audience
  • Talent
  • Luck

• Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Pizza

• What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Evolution

• I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Words
  • Day
  • Short

• I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Think
  • Space

• reported by Trudy Ring, 'Georgia Governor: 'License to Discriminate' Bill Isn't Christian,' The Advocate, March 3, 2016

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Christian
  • March

• My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work
  • Eyes

• Time flies when you are anxious!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Time

• The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.

  

  Artur Schnabel
  • Art

• One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Money

• I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Thinking

• If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Workout

• Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• The stream is always purer at its source.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Source
  • Stream

• Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believes
  • Told
  • Man Is

• Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Party
  • Water

• Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • True
  • Question

• I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Wonder
  • Sorry

• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Wonder
  • Creation
  • Trade