Bette Davis Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

  Bette Davis

  Regret, Apology, Enemy

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  Bette Davis

  Acting, Bigger Than Life, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  Bette Davis

  Acting, Stage Actors, Wonder

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

• There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

  Bette Davis

  Party, Acting, Hollywood

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

• Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

  Bette Davis

  Art, Emotional, Discipline

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

• Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

  Bette Davis

  Character, Play, Childhood

• I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

  Bette Davis

  Laughing, Acting, Actors

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