I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I 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.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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