Bette Davis
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Bette DavisEverybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette DavisI'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
Bette DavisI don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette DavisI'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 DavisThe best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette DavisIt has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette DavisStrong women only marry weak men.
Bette DavisI 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 DavisI will never be below the title.
Bette DavisThis became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette DavisLove is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette DavisI went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
Bette DavisSex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette DavisI work to stay alive.
Bette DavisGay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette DavisLocations 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 DavisThe key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette DavisI have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Bette DavisI 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 DavisWave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette DavisThe only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette DavisWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Bette DavisMen 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 DavisHollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis
