Bette Quote by Vesta Williams Download Open image “A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.” — Vesta Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bette Bette Midler Black Black Bette Called Black Compliment Lot Me Midler Regard People Regard Regard Compliment
I always came away thinking "I'd like to see her more," you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
At various points in my own life, I have been laughed at scathingly for calling myself black. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
People always ask me why everyone calls me black (im white)...now I just tell them its because I'm gifted — Luke Collins Copy Share Image
The biggest compliment that I receive is when other black folks come up to me and say, 'You changed the way that I thought… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
“I have many names; my mother calls me ‘Nwelezelanga’ because of my golden hair. Some call me ‘Mhlophe’ because of my fair, almost-ginger skin.… — Unathi Magubeni Copy Share Image
Some black people who have not heard me interviewed or read my book jump to conclusions and prejudge me... I've been called Uncle Tom.… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I remember when we were called 'colored,' and Dr. King would always tell young people not to get upset at what people called you.… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl. — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis. — Val Guest Copy Share Image
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars,… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it. — Henry Fonda Copy Share Image
I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara… — James Gray Copy Share Image