The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVISWhat a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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I’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.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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