Bette Davis Quotes (83 Quotes)

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.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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

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

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

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

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

I've lost my faith in science.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

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.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night.

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

She's the original good time that was had by all.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

I must start wearing a watch. I never have you know.

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.

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

I've always liked men better than women.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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.

Performance number 1,000, if I play it that long, will take place in a well-padded booby-hatch.

I work to stay alive.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.