Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISIf everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
More Bette Davis Quotes
-
-
As 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 DAVIS -
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.
BETTE DAVIS -
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVIS -
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS -
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
BETTE DAVIS -
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
BETTE DAVIS -
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS -
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS -
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS -
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.
BETTE DAVIS -
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS -
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVIS -
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
BETTE DAVIS -
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 -
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVIS