I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'

I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.