Quotes By Bette Davis

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

I work to stay alive.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

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.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

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.

I am just too much.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

I've always liked men better than women.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

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.

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.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.