Bette Davis quotes

I work to stay alive.

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.

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.

I've lost my faith in science.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

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.

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

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

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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.

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

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.

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

Old age is no place for sissies.

I've lost my faith in science.

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.

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.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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

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.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.