Bette Davis Quotes

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is t...

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child c...

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

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thi...

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

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

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

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such t...

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...

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

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

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy shou...

I work to stay alive.

I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from t...

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, tho...

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the...

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

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and gu...

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

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

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

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

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottom...

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

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see ...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a...

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottom...