You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISYou mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISOnce 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 DAVISNever, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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 DAVISYou can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISEvil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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 DAVISThere comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVISLife is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVISHome is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVISI never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVIS