I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVISThe world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
BETTE DAVISAt 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 DAVISThe only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVISI never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVISI have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISI’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVISI wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVISWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVISWomen are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
BETTE DAVISIt’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
BETTE DAVISI 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 DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVISI am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVIS