Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISI work to stay alive.
More Bette Davis Quotes
-
-
It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
BETTE DAVIS -
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS -
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
BETTE DAVIS -
The 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 -
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVIS -
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS -
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS -
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS -
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS -
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS -
I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
BETTE DAVIS -
I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVIS -
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVIS -
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.
BETTE DAVIS -
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS -
It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
BETTE DAVIS -
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS -
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS -
Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVIS -
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS -
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVIS -
Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVIS -
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVIS -
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVIS -
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.
BETTE DAVIS -
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS