Quotes by 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.”

“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 ca...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyones concern ...”

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”

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

“The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.”

“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.”

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

“To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”

“Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.”

“To look back is to relax one's vigil.”

“The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern...”

“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

“I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so ...”

“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.”