Bette Davis Quotes
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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.
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I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
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You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.