Bette Davis Quotes

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

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

I work to stay alive.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

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

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

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

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

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

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

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

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

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

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

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

Old age ain't for sissies

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

I believe one should be a woman at home.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world.

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

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

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

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

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

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

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