In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.BQuote by Bette Davis about celebrity, affair, contentment
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.BQuote by Bette Davis about thinking, things, life
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.B
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.BQuote by Bette Davis about love
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.BQuote by Bette Davis about man
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.BQuote by Bette Davis about purpose
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.BQuote by Bette Davis about moon, celebrity, stars
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.BQuote by Bette Davis about nation, people
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.BQuote by Bette Davis about actors
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?BQuote by Bette Davis about time
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.BQuote by Bette Davis about life
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.BQuote by Bette Davis about reason, work
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.BQuote by Bette Davis about criminals, day, word, old, olderness, truth, good, good luck, people, contentment