Bette Davis Quotes
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Bette Davis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable ... I suppose I'm larger than life.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good ... Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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.
You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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.
and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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.
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.
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring ... I ought to know.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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.