I think mystery is kind of great. I don`t know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they`re my personal movie stars. I don`t know what they eat and who their tr...
Rachel Weisz
I want to be as good an actress as Bette Davis, and I`d like to be a great singer. But more than that I`d like to be happily married and have some children.
Carole Landis
[On Bette Midler] I loved working with Bette. I rarely get to have a good leading lady and Bette and Marsha Mason are the best. I`d work with them again anytime.
Richard Dreyfuss
[On Bette Midler] I loved working with Bette. I rarely get to have a good leading lady and Bette and Marsha Mason are the best. I`d work with them again anytime.
Richard Dreyfuss
[On Bette Midler] I loved working with Bette. I rarely get to have a good leading lady and Bette and Marsha Mason are the best. I`d work with them again anytime.
Richard Dreyfuss
Maybe I just didn`t have the temperament for stardom. I`ll never forget seeing Bette Davis at the Hilton in Madrid. I went up to her and said, "Miss Davis, I`m Ava Gardner and I`m a great fan of yours." And do you know, she behaved exactly as I wanted her...
Ava Gardner
Don`t think I don`t know who`s been spreading gossip about me . . . After all the nice things I`ve said about that hag [Bette Davis]. When I get hold of her, I`ll tear out every hair of her mustache!
Tallulah Bankhead
[when asked to take over Joan Crawford`s role in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)] "No, thank you. I can just about stand looking at Joan Crawford`s face at six o`clock in the morning, but not Bette Davis."
Vivien Leigh
The First Wives Club (1996) gave me a certain level of confidence. Because I was working with these three women - Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton - who as women have been through every high and low. Goldie especially took me under her wing and ...
Elizabeth Berkley
Working with Bette Davis was my greatest challenge and I mean that kindly. She liked to scream and yell. I just sit and knit. During the filming of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu.
Joan Crawford
[referring to both the film release of "Mommie Dearest" (Mommie Dearest (1981)), the biography of Joan Crawford written by her daughter Christina Crawford, and the equally scathing book about Bette Davis, written by her daughter] Now I know why tigers eat...
Bob Hope
[referring to her fourth husband, Gary Merrill]: "Gary was a macho man, but none of my husbands was ever man enough to become Mr. Bette Davis."
Bette Davis
The women I admire most in this business are Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler and Winona Ryder. Susan Sarandon because she`s, well, Susan Sarandon. Winona because she`s never compromised herself by showing her body in any of her love scenes, and Bette Midler ...
Keiko Agena
The women I admire most in this business are Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler and Winona Ryder. Susan Sarandon because she`s, well, Susan Sarandon. Winona because she`s never compromised herself by showing her body in any of her love scenes, and Bette Midler ...
Keiko Agena
[on Bette Davis] You`re the luckiest of us all. You started playing older women when you were young. So you never had to bridge the gap.
Claudette Colbert
I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I`m not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don`t bother with you. You just don`t get the role and you never know why. That`s still ...
America Ferrera
[on Bette Davis] The great lesson I learned from Bette was her absolute dedication to getting everything just right. She used to spend hours studying the character she was going to play, then hours in make-up ensuring that her physical appearance was righ...
Olivia De Havilland
[on Bette Davis] The great lesson I learned from Bette was her absolute dedication to getting everything just right. She used to spend hours studying the character she was going to play, then hours in make-up ensuring that her physical appearance was righ...
Olivia De Havilland
[talking about how smoking used to be depicted in films] In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Loni Anderson
[on working with Bette Davis on the TV movie "Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter"] When they offered that part opposite her, I didn`t want to do it. I thought, what if all my illusions were broken? But I couldn`t resist the temptation. She`s no...
Gena Rowlands
When asked what her favourite movie is: I think one of my favourite films is `Dark Victory` with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And....maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.
Debbie Reynolds
My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939). I have seen it six or seven times and I still cry.
Bettie Page
