Top 1200 Davis Cup Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

I have boxes of gospel LPs and 78s. The Davis Sisters, the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travellers. I love all that.

Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.

I am a music freak. My tastes run the gamut from Willie Nelson to Metallica to Miles Davis.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

Miles Davis is my go-to for music. There's something so relaxing and ambient about it, and it can be a little manic in a good way.

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

Lincoln Davis has supported Nancy Pelosi's anti-business, big government policies a disturbing 83% of the time.

Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.

Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, whatever it may be, is maybe the most fun couple weeks we have a year, but I love being able to control my own destiny. The work that I am able to put in ahead of time was either going to come out and I was going to be successful with it, or I was going to try and fail and learn how to succeed the next time.

I know Charles Michael Davis. I used to play poker with him when I lived in Los Angeles.

Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party, and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.

To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.

Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.

I would not swap the World Cup title for any accolade. But I could imagine that quite a few would swap every accolade for a World Cup title.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.

I mean, I see the old interviews with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, these characters clawed their way up - what stories.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

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

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

My dream role? I think to play Sammy Davis Jr. and his life story.

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.