Bette Davis Quotes

The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Heart Reality
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS

Empowerment Inspirational Women
Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVIS

Luck People Treat Yourself
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS

End Fame Ourselves Stars
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVIS

Fun Pain Yourself
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
BETTE DAVIS

Space Thinking War
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

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Mom Phone Year
It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVIS

Intelligent Marriage Men
I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS

Funny Hairs Life Myself
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVIS

God Prayer
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspirational Reality
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success
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

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS

Faith Lost Science
If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVIS

Dull Pretty Yourself
I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
BETTE DAVIS

Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
BETTE DAVIS

Art Baby Entertainment
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVIS

Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself

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