A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
First time was when I was 26 and got married - and it was hell waiting.
From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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.
I am just too much.
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.
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
I must start wearing a watch. I never have you know.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
I see - she's the original good time that was had by all.
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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 was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
I will never be below the title.
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
I work to stay alive.
I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
I've always liked men better than women.
I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.
I've lost my faith in science.
If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery... where I am sure you will all feel more at home.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Old age is no place for sissies.
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
She is the original good time that was had by all.
Strong women only marry weak men.
That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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.
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?
When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
You can't say I didn't fall for you.
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
On July 19, 2001, Steven Spielberg purchased Bette's Oscar for Jezebel at a Christie's auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Bette Davis once lived at 1847 Camino Palmero, in Hollywood, California.
Bette Davis wrote two books called This N That and Bette Davis, The Lonely Life.
Bette Davis won two Oscars for Best Actress Oscar for the movies Dangerous and Jezebel.
Bette Davis was an actress, author, and producer.
In 1984, Bette disinherited her daughter Barbara David Hyman after she wrote a tell all book about her.
Bette had two daughters named Barbara and Margot.
In 1932, Bette was making $1,000 a week by the studio.
Entertainment Weekly named Bette Davis the 10th Greatest Movie Star of all time.
When Bette Davis first came to Hollywood as a contract player, Universal Pictures wanted to change her name to Bettina Dawes.
When Bette Davis found out that her new brother-in-law was a recovering alcoholic, she sent the couple a dozen cases of liquor for a wedding present.
Bette Davis was married to Harmon Nelson from 1932 until 1938. Then she was married to Arthur Farnsworth 1940 until his death in 1943. Then she was married to William Grant Sherry from 1945 until 1950. Finally she was married to Gary Merrill from 1950 until 1960.
Bette was 5'3" tall.
Bette had three children, one of whom was severely retarded.
Bette's legendary feud with Joan Crawford began when Bette was making the movie Dangerous with Franchot Tone. They were both having an affair with him and the other didn't know.
In 1977, the American Film Institute gave Bette its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bette claimed to have given the Academy Award the nickname 'Oscar' after her first husband, Harmon "Oscar" Nelson.
Bette once posed nude for an artist, who carved a statue of her that was placed in a public spot in Boston, MA.
Bette took her name from Balzac's novel Cousin Bette.
Bette was of Welsh and Scottish descent.
Bette is one of only two people to be nominated for an Academy Award five years in a row (1938, 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942). She shares the record for most consectutive nominations with Greer Garson.
Bette has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One is for television, while the other is for motion pictures.
In 1983, Bette suffered four strokes and a mastectomy.
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