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Bette Davis
American
Actress
About the author
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,
American
Actress
#Nixon
#HusbFlowers
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,
American
Actress
#Bed
#Sex
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Talk
#Tears
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Actor
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Character
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,
American
Actress
#Women
#Boys
#Famous
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Now
#Life
#Thought
#Jest
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,
American
Actress
#Successful
#Actors
#Psychoanalysis
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#People
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Old
#Age
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Stars
#Moon
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,
American
Actress
#Today
#Purpose
#Aggression
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,
American
Actress
#Men
#Women
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,
American
Actress
#Years
#Sound
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Business
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Man
#Woman
#Opinion
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#God
#Sex
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Love
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Chance
#Money
#Labor
#Dream
#Lonely
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Wonder
#Trade
#Creation
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Dying
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.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Ladies
I will never be below the title.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Will
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Want
#End
#Stars
I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Science
#Faith
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
#Beginning
#Romance
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Relax
Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Men
#Women
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Work
#Order
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,
American
Actress
#Now
#Words
#People
#Today
#Old
#Truth
#Heroes
#Credulity
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Work
#Reason
#Movies
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Life
#Key
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Baby
#Stairs
That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Old
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Day
#Today
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,
American
Actress
#Hell
#Waiting
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Want
#Happiness
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Life
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Now
#Marriage
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Work
#Order
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,
American
Actress
#World
#Home
#Jungle
I work to stay alive.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Work
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#People
#Heart
I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Men
#Women
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Gay
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Life
#Actors
#Faces
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Pretty
#Realism
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Success
#Goal
#Eternity
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,
American
Actress
#Enemy
#Business
#Actor
#Regret
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Love
#End
#Respect
#Marriage
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Movies
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,
American
Actress
#Man
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Hair
#Kiss
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Will
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
#Work
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis,
American
Actress