A Quote by Richard Griffiths

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

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Richard Griffiths
English - Actor
Born: July 31, 1947

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

Debbie Reynolds

When I first watched Bette Davis in 'All About Eve', I was struck by how much I felt that she is Margo Channing and that she's Bette Davis, where she was able to do both, where you're like, 'What an icon.'

Tavi Gevinson

I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played Horshack on 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' And Ron did not write me back, but Bette Davis did.

Ryan Murphy

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

Robert Osborne

I was very much raised by my grandmother, who actually was Bette Davis - looked like her, acted like her, talked like her. Probably, it was just out of my love and affection for my grandmother that I was interested in Bette.

Ryan Murphy

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Rebecca Hall

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Gena Rowlands

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

Julie Andrews

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

Robert Osborne

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.

Debbie Reynolds

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

Joe Eszterhas

I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

Imelda May

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Winona Ryder

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

Charlize Theron

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

Marcia Gay Harden

I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."

Edward Hirsch

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