Bette Davis Quotes

Life is a jest.. view

By: Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it... view

By: Bette Davis

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else... view

By: Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies... view

By: Bette Davis

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars... view

By: Bette Davis

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today.. view

By: Bette Davis

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up... view

By: Bette Davis

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes... view

By: Bette Davis

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent... view

By: Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up... view

By: Bette Davis

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star... view

By: Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!.. view

By: Bette Davis

When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch... view

By: Bette Davis

Sex is God's joke on human beings... view

By: Bette Davis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding... view

By: Bette Davis

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy... view

By: Bette Davis

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation... view

By: Bette Davis

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying... view

By: Bette Davis

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies... view

By: Bette Davis

I will never be below the title... view

By: Bette Davis

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to... view

By: Bette Davis

I've lost my faith in science... view

By: Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life... view

By: Bette Davis

To look back is to relax one's vigil... view

By: Bette Davis

Strong women only marry weak men... view

By: Bette Davis

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

By: Bette Davis

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch... view

By: Bette Davis

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies... view

By: Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead... view

By: Bette Davis

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.. view

By: Bette Davis

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers... view

By: Bette Davis

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition... view

By: Bette Davis

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it... view

By: Bette Davis

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else... view

By: Bette Davis

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life... view

By: Bette Davis

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know... view

By: Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work... view

By: Bette Davis

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world... view

By: Bette Davis

I work to stay alive... view

By: Bette Davis

Everybody has a heart. Except some people... view

By: Bette Davis

I've always liked men better than women... view

By: Bette Davis

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me... view

By: Bette Davis