Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISLife is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISYou know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVISAs a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
BETTE DAVISActing should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVISI never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVISThe real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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 DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISIt 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.
BETTE DAVISI wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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 guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISI 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 DAVISYour luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVISYou should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS