3 December 2020 Bette Davis This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis 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.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 Bette Davis 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.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis 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.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis 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.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis 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.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis 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.
