Bette Davis Quotes

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

If you're not out there taking some risks, if you're just coasting along with your wins, then you're not really trying.

Expect more than others think possible.

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

If you're going to set an ambition, set it high.

I like to set goals that seem impossible.

I'm always wanting to do the impossible.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

Reach for the stars.

As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

If you reach for the highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less than the stars.

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

I always look for a challenge. Maybe it's part of my mentality to create something special.

Conor McGregor set this bar, and I'm trying to break it. If you're not trying to break it, then why are you in the game?

Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that.

Expectations don't scare me because I have worked towards them. I want people to expect better things from me with every film. I never want to be in a position where they don't expect anything from me. I want to be in a position where if they are expecting sun from me, at least I will be able to reach the moon.

I like to break the records, break the limits.