Words matter. These are the best Bette Davis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.
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.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
I’ve lost my faith in science.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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.
In this rat-race everybody’s guilty till proved innocent!
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Sex is God’s joke on human beings.
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
That’s me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
Strong women only marry weak men.
I am just too much.
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
I’ve always liked men better than women.
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.
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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.
Today everyone is a star – they’re all billed as ‘starring’ or ‘also starring’. In my day, we earned that recognition.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
I’d like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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.
