Bette Davis Quotes
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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There's only one way to work -- like hell.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I will never be below the title.
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People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!
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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.
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She did it the hard way.
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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.
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I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.