Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISGetting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVISPlaying our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISI didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVISI’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVISI want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVISI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVISI think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
BETTE DAVISWomen 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 DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVISI never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVISYou’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVISI’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVISThere 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