In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISIn this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISYou know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVISYou know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVISAlmost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISThe secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
BETTE DAVISI have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISI didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVISLife is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISI never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVISIf Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS