I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVISI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVISLife is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISOne can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
BETTE DAVISWhat a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISYou’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISThe key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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 DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVISI was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
BETTE DAVISIt’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
BETTE DAVISTo fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS