Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVISDramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVISI’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVISSuccess only breeds a new goal
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 DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVISI think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVISI never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVISI have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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 DAVISYou mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS