Bette Davis

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."
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"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
"I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."
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."
Bette Davis
"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."
Bette Davis
"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."
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."
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."
Bette Davis
"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
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."
Bette Davis
"I work to stay alive."
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."
Bette Davis
"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
Bette Davis
"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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."
Bette Davis
"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 dangerous."
Bette Davis
"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"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 and like vampires they suck our life's blood."
Bette Davis
"To look back is to relax one's vigil."
Bette Davis
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