Bette Davis Quotes

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

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

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.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

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

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a 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. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

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

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

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.

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

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.