Quotes By Bette Davis

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

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

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.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

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 will never be below the title.

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

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

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

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 was the Marlon Brando of my generation.