Bette Davis Quotes

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

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

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

I will never be below the title.

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

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

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

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

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.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

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

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Yes, burn your bridges.

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

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

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

She did it the hard way.

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

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

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

I've always liked men better than women.

I've lost my faith in science.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

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

Success only breeds a new goal

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Pray to God and say the lines.

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.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

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

You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

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.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

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