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Bette Davis Quotes

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989

Topics

Work Success I Am Seeds Apple Goal

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

Jill Soloway

Culture Purpose Wait Artist Okay

I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.

Jen Sincero

People Week You Know Meet Need

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

Andrew Davies

Love Hate Together Ready First See

I worked in the Clinton administration.

Andrew Cuomo

Administration Clinton Administration

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

Robert Hass

Year Earth Every Forgives Previous

I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

Matt Lauer

Things Where Like Supposed

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Michael J. Fox

Life Humor Best Looking View Any

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

Tom Selleck

Myself Succeed Think Sexy Someone

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

Roberto Cavalli

Bird Moment I Am Me Free Feet

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Parents Me Think Rejection Say Want

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Milan Kundera

Culture Words Madness Quantity

I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.

Josh Tillman

Love Words Better Mouth Feeling Out