The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVISI was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Playing 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.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I 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.
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