Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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 DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
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 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 DAVISAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVISThe key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVISEvil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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 DAVISShe’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVISPleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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 DAVISOnce the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVIS