black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

Bette Davis

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Enemy Myself Regret
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

I Miss You Missing Pain True
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Heaven Myself
I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVIS

Eat Food Forget Yourself
As 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 DAVIS

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Stars Yourself
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Movie Stars
Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVIS

God Prayer
Women 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 DAVIS

Necessary Thinking Writing
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

Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVIS

Right Yourself
It’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 DAVIS

Hate People Worth Yourself
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
BETTE DAVIS

Art Baby Entertainment
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
BETTE DAVIS

Family Hollywood Myself Young
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVIS

Expectations Happiness
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Myself Woman
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS

End Fame Ourselves Stars
Once 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

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVIS

Art Herself Opinion Women
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
BETTE DAVIS

Heart People
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bette Davis Quotes