Bette Davis on eyes
Bette Davis119 quotes“I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.”
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
Bette DavisBette Davis I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
Bette DavisBette Davis I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette DavisBette Davis One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
Bette DavisBette Davis You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette DavisBette Davis To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
Bette DavisBette Davis If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
Bette DavisBette Davis I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
Bette DavisBette Davis Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
Bette DavisBette Davis Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
Bette DavisBette Davis Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
Bette DavisBette Davis You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
Bette DavisBette Davis The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
Bette DavisBette Davis It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
Bette DavisBette Davis Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
Bette DavisBette Davis People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
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Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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When you see tears in my eyes, you see it’s not about the wins or the losses, It’s about the opportunity.
Ray LewisRay Lewis And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James JoyceJames Joyce There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.
Robert KiyosakiRobert Kiyosaki Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
MenciusMencius A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust
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