“Old age is no place for sissies.”
Age
“I've lost my faith in science.”
FaithAll Quotes by Bette Davis
“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.”
Success“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.”
Movies“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”
Great“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
Work“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.”
Business“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.”
Money“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.”
Marriage“An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.”
Marriage“I've always liked men better than women.”
Women“In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.”
Business“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
Happiness“Sex is God's joke on human beings.”
God“I've lost my faith in science.”
Faith“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.”
Home“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.”
Truth“I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.”
Funny“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.”
Famous“The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Best“I work to stay alive.”
Work