There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVISThere is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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 DAVISI’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVISI was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVISGood actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISI’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVISThe secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
BETTE DAVISFasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVISPleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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 DAVISI never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVISThe only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVISI’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.
BETTE DAVISI have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS