If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVISHome is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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