Bette Davis Quotes
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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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.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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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.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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.
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.