Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
BETTE DAVISI didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
More Bette Davis Quotes
-
-
You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVIS -
Playing 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 DAVIS -
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 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 -
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 -
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVIS -
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
BETTE DAVIS -
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS -
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
BETTE DAVIS -
I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
BETTE DAVIS -
I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS -
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVIS -
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS







