If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVISTo 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 DAVISYou mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISDramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISGay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISI’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVISPlaying our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVISI firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISI wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
BETTE DAVISYou can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVISNever, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVIS