Bette Davis Quotes

"I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed."
-Bette Davis in Sex quotes.

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."
-Bette Davis in Passion quotes.

"The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being."
-Bette Davis

"I survived because I was tougher than anybody else."
-Bette Davis

"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
-Bette Davis

"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
-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 in Heroes quotes.

"Getting old is not for sissies."
-Bette Davis

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
-Bette Davis

"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."
-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 in Enemies quotes.

"I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."
-Bette Davis

"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."
-Bette Davis in Work quotes.

"My darling,it is late and I am very tired of youth,love,and self-sacrafice."
-Bette Davis

"She's the original good time that was had by all."
-Bette Davis

"You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get."
-Bette Davis

"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."
-Bette Davis

"You can't say I didn't fall for you."
-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

"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

"Everybody has a heart. Except some people."
-Bette Davis