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Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies.

-Bette Davis

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

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

business

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

-Bette Davis

business

I've lost my faith in science.

-Bette Davis

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

famous

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

-Bette Davis

funny

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

-Bette Davis

funny

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

-Bette Davis

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

great

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

-Bette Davis

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

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

marriage

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

-Bette Davis

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

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

men

Strong women only marry weak men.

-Bette Davis

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

money

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

-Bette Davis

movies

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

-Bette Davis

movies

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

-Bette Davis

respect

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

romantic

I've lost my faith in science.

-Bette Davis

science

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.

-Bette Davis

success

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

time

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.

-Bette Davis

truth

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

women

Strong women only marry weak men.

-Bette Davis

women

I've always liked men better than women.

-Bette Davis

women

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

women

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

work

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

-Bette Davis

work

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

-Bette Davis

work

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.

-Bette Davis

work

Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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.

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

I've lost my faith in science.

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.

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

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

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Strong women only marry weak 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.

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

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

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

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

I've lost my faith in science.

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.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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.

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.

Strong women only marry weak men.

I've always liked men better than women.

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.

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.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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.

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

I work to stay alive.

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