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 DAVISI 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 DAVISThe best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
BETTE DAVISPleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVISGetting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVISI was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVISSuccess only breeds a new goal
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 DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISFasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVISI’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 DAVISPlaying 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 DAVISThe key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVISThe real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS