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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable ... I suppose I'm larger than life.
— Bette Davis
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
— Henry Fonda
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
— Bette Davis
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
— Bette Davis
Pray to God and say the lines.
— Bette Davis
You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
— Bette Davis
Getting old is not for sissies.
— Bette Davis
I've lost my faith in science.
— Bette Davis
I've always liked men better than women.
— Bette Davis
Success only breeds a new goal
— Bette Davis
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
— Bette Davis
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
— Bette Davis
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
— Bette Davis
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
— Bette Davis
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
— Bette Davis
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
— Bette Davis
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good ... Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
— Bette Davis
Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
— Bette Davis
I am just too much.
— Bette Davis
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
— Bette Davis
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.
— Bette Davis
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
— Jacques Audiard
I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
— Bette Davis
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
— Bette Davis
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
— Bette Davis
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
— Bette Davis
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
— Bette Davis
Old age ain't for sissies
— Bette Davis
Old age is no place for sissies.
— Bette Davis
Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.
— Mario Cantone
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
— Bette Davis
I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.
— Richard Griffiths
I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
— Imelda May
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
— Bette Davis
I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.
— Rebecca Hall
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
— Bette Davis
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
— Bette Davis
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!
— Bette Davis
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
— Bette Davis
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
— Bette Davis
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
— Bette Davis
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
— Bette Davis
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
— Bette Davis
I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
— 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.
— Bette Davis
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
— Bette Davis
Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.
— Richard LaGravenese
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
— Bette Davis
Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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.
— Bette Davis
There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"
— Winona Ryder
She's the original good time who was had by all.
— Bette Davis
You can lose everything
but you can't lose your talent! — Bette Davis
but you can't lose your talent! — Bette Davis
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
— Bette Davis
Getting old isn't for sissies.
— Bette Davis
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
— Bette Davis
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."
— Frank Langella
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
— Bette Davis
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. — Bette Davis
and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal. — Bette Davis
I will never be below the title.
— Bette Davis
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.
— Bette Davis
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
— Claudette Colbert
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.
— Bette Davis
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
— Bette Davis
There's only one way to work
like hell. — Bette Davis
like hell. — Bette Davis
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.
— Bette Davis
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
— Bette Davis
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.
— Bette Davis
I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire
— Bette Davis
If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.
— Bette Davis
It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.
— Charles Busch
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
— Bette Davis
I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.
— Bette Davis
I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
— Bette Davis
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring ... I ought to know.
— Bette Davis
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
— Bette Davis