Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISI often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVISI’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVISI’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVISI work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISIn this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVISSuccess is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVISI 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 DAVISStrong women only marry weak men.
BETTE DAVISAt 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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 DAVISI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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 DAVIS