The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVISI’ve lost my faith in science.
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 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 DAVISIf you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVISMy passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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 DAVISActing should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVISI have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISAlmost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVISGood actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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 want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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 DAVIS