If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISIf Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVISI survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISYou should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVISIn this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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 am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVISYou’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVISTo fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
BETTE DAVISI firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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 DAVISIf men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS