Bette Davis Quotes

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Bette Davis

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• Legs
• Retire

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• It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Family
  • Why
  • Want

• When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Family
  • Food
  • Animal

• Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • For Him
  • Kill

• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Fighting

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Growing
  • Know
  • Moments

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Problem

• I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• I think Michael Moore is a hero.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Hero
  • Michael

• Pay-Per-View is run by drama. It is. It's true. I've done the research for myself. You look at Jon Jones. When Jon Jones fought Machida, probably did about $200,000, $300,000. When he fought Cormier, they made, like, $875,000.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Done
  • True
  • Drama

• I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

  

  Bill Klem
  • Home

• There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Father
  • Animal
  • Dirty

• Japan had the big earthquake in 2011, and the Olympics will be a good opportunity to bring strength to the people of the Tohoku region - and also to show everyone around the world that Japan is doing fine again. These are messages we have to convey through the power of sport.

  

  Kohei Uchimura
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Trying
  • May

• Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.

  

  Chris Gabrieli
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Makeup
  • Legs
  • Retire