The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVISThe key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVISIf Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISAs a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISI wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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 DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVISYou will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVISYou should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVISHome is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISI want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVISThe 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