“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
― Bette Davis
“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.”
― Bette Davis
“Strong women only marry weak men.”
― Bette Davis
“Old age is no place for sissies.”
― Bette Davis
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
― Bette Davis
“It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.”
― 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.”
― 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.”
― Bette Davis
“I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.”
― Bette Davis
“I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.”
― Bette Davis
“People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.”
― Bette Davis
“I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.”
― 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?”
― 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.”
― Bette Davis
“To look back is to relax one’s vigil.”
― Bette Davis
“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.”
― Bette Davis
“I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.”
― Bette Davis
“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.”
― Bette Davis
“Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.”
― Bette Davis
“I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.”
― 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.”
― Bette Davis
“Sex is God’s joke on human beings.”
― Bette Davis
“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”
― 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.”
― Bette Davis
“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”
― Bette Davis
“Everybody has a heart. Except some people.”
― Bette Davis
“If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.”
― 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.”
― Bette Davis
“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.”
― Bette Davis
“I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.”
― Bette Davis
“Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.”
― Bette Davis
“I’ve always liked men better than women.”
― Bette Davis
“I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.”
― Bette Davis
“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
― Bette Davis
“An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.”
― 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.”
― Bette Davis
“I will never be below the title.”
― Bette Davis
“I work to stay alive.”
― Bette Davis
“Today everyone is a star – they’re all billed as ‘starring’ or ‘also starring’. In my day, we earned that recognition.”
― Bette Davis
“With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.”
― Bette Davis
“That’s me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.”
― Bette Davis
“I am just too much.”
― Bette Davis
“I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.”
― Bette Davis
“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.”
― Bette Davis
“I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.”
― Bette Davis
“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.”
― Bette Davis
“I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.”
― 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.”
― Bette Davis
“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.”
― Bette Davis
“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.”
― Bette Davis
“I’ve lost my faith in science.”
― Bette Davis
“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.”
― Bette Davis
“In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.”
― Bette Davis
“Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.”
― Bette Davis
“In this rat-race everybody’s guilty till proved innocent!”
― Bette Davis
“We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.”
― Bette Davis
“Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.”
― Bette Davis
“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.”
― Bette Davis
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