Quotes By Bette Davis

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Strong women only marry weak men.

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.

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.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

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

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.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

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.

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

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

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.

I am just too much.

I've always liked men better than women.

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

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

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