Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVISThere comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
More Bette Davis Quotes
-
-
I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS -
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVIS -
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.
BETTE DAVIS -
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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 -
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS -
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS -
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS -
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS -
Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS -
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS -
It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS -
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS -
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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







