I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISBasically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
BETTE DAVISIf everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVISI firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISI want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISGood actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISSuccess is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVISAmong 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 DAVISI may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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 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 DAVISIf men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVISYou’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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