38 Quotes By Bette Davis


Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis on age

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 on best

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.
Bette Davis on business

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Bette Davis on business

I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis on faith

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.
Bette Davis on famous

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis on funny

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

Sex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette Davis on god

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

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

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 on home

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.
Bette Davis on marriage

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

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

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.
Bette Davis on men

Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis on 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.
Bette Davis on money

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

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