Bette Davis Quotes

My films are larger than life.

The New Gods really need to be larger than life. There's an operatic quality to them, and they need to be handled pretty carefully, or else you'll go too far and be almost like a caricature.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.