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
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
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
Sammy [Sammy Davis Jr.] was really good friends with Peter Brown. Peter got married to a French girl, Yvette. He had this little ceremony in this church in Beverly Hills. Sammy . . . and Dean Martin were there. Dean Martin fell sound asleep just before Pe...
William Smith
The geniuses of music, like Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach) and Miles Davis, used silence beautifully; they were not about using as many notes as possible. They knew that playing almost nothing can be the most elegant and eloquent thing to do.
Sting
[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
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
[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
[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
Part of Emmy acceptance speech for _"Angels in America" (2003) (mini)_: "Glenn [Close] is my friend so I know she`ll forgive me, Helen Mirren is an acting god, and no one has put a better performance on film than Judy Davis in "The Judy Garland Story". Th...
Meryl Streep
I would overhear fans say, `Look, there`s the ugly girl from Charles in Charge." - Josie Davis, on why going through puberty on television was extraordinarily painful
Josie Davis
[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
[after the deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Ava Gardner, Jilly Rizzo and Dean Martin] I`m next. I ain`t scared, either. Everybody I ever knew is already over there.
Frank Sinatra
You would think he was playing in his local club rather than (at) The Crucible. He used to chase after Steve Davis for his autograph as a lad. Steve might be running after Shaun the way he has played here!
Dennis Taylor
You have a vengeance against somebody or you have a problem, don`t take it out on an innocent animal. These horses are Mr. Davis` life. He`s 80 years old and this is what keeps him going, he comes out here, takes care of these horses to the best of his ab...
Melissa Brown
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
