Bette Davis was born on 5th April 1908 in America. Her full name was Ruth Elizabeth Bette Davis. Her active years were from 1929 to 1989. She was born in Massachusetts in the United States of America.
When she was seven years old, her father divorced her mother, who was left to raise Bette and younger daughter Barbara on her own. When Bette Davis was a teenager, she started her acting career in school productions at the Cushing Academy in Massachusetts.
She was a great actress with a career spanning more than 50 years. She did a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical films, suspense horror, and occasional comedies. But she was most known for her romantic roles in the movies. Bette Davis is remembered as one of Hollywood's legendary leading ladies, famous for her larger-than-life persona and her nearly 100 film appearances.
She became an icon after her film, About Eve and Dark Victory, was released. Bette Davis published two autobiographies during her lifetime: The Lonely Life in 1962 and This 'n' That in 1987. She won two awards for her film, 'Dangerous' and 'Jezebel' in 1935 and 1938, respectively. Below is a list of famous Bette Davis Quotes.
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
She says that when a man gives an option, he is less harmful than a woman, but when a woman gives an option, she is a dangerous one. Women are always dangerous when compared to a man in terms of giving options to somebody.
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
She says that a woman is bound to find time in her life when she will be forced to pick up a glass of champagne. The men always force women as this is a patriarchal society. A woman is always oppressed and is compelled by society to take harsh ways of living life.
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
A child always considers his parents wrong. And this thing has been well defined by Bette Davis herself when she says that. A parent is also best defined when they are not liked by their kids because there is always a generation gap between the two groups.
It's better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes if you're hated by the right people.
A person is always headed by someone or the other. People suppress you. They don't like you for who you are because they are jealous of you. Often when we are on the correct path or right path, we are bound to be hated by the people around us.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Challenges are a part of life. They are very necessary for everybody's life. A person who does not accept challenges in his life never grows in his life and is a dead person moving here and there without any purpose. Since challengers bring growth in our lives, we will grow to our full potential in life if we accept them.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Love is the basis of life, but love is not everything in life. It is a part of a structure, foundation but not everything as a whole. It is required in life but inappropriate proportions.
Everybody has a heart. Except for some people.
Everybody has a heart, but there are few people in society who do not possess a heart as they do not have feelings. They do not bother with what they are saying and just keep going with whatever comes to them in their minds. Such people are really like a liability to society because they spread negative feelings all around.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
There is a huge difference between the pleasure of love and the pain of love. The pleasure of love lasts for a moment, maybe for a few seconds, but the pain of love lasts for a long time and maybe for a lifetime because love is not easily expressed in words.
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
Here, Bette Davis considers herself the nicest person God has ever made as she also considers herself a bad person that has ever lived on this earth.
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
By expecting something, we expect happiness. And when that thing does not happen in reality, we realise sorrow. But to avoid or change happiness, one must change his or her expectation because if we do not expect something from someone, we are more peaceful and happy.
I am just too much.
She considers herself the best in the world. She considers herself to be the most beautiful and the most talented person in the world through this quote.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.
She says that she will not retire from films early because she has a makeup box to increase her beauty. She says that she can do whatever she wants until she has all the luxury with her.
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
Life is a huge and complex phenomenon. It is not very easy to understand life. Life is composed of the past, present and the future and in this whole life evolves.
Success only breeds a new goal
Bette Davis says that when a person achieves one goal, then he becomes more thirsty for the other and starts working for the other goal.
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Life is a very tough competition where only the best one survives. The person who can easily adapt to the environment survives in this world.
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.
She says that she would marry a very rich person who is willing to give half of his money to her and will be dead within a year.
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Attempt the impossible to improve your work.
One must always attempt the impossible to move ahead of time. By doing the impossible, one can only be successful and reach new heights in his life.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes a creation.
Acting is a deep art. Without wondering and putting one's mind into it, one cannot do acting, and when a person puts these two things, acting becomes a creation.
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.
A child can only grow if he is given an environment like a jungle where he survives and starts searching away to get out of it. Only then he can fit into the outside world.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Acting is an art, and to perform, it is the script that must be bigger than life or larger than life so that it is easily conceivable by the people at the other end.
