Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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On gay men: Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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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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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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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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It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.