Bette Davis Quotes

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVIS

Courage Material Self Confidence
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
BETTE DAVIS

Eyes Goodness Hairs Survive Yourself
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Care Children Family Hate Love
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspiration Memories
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
BETTE DAVIS

Believe Children Home World
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Secret
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Believe Children Myself Parents
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVIS

Future Life Past
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Act Big Life
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS

Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVIS

Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Title Worth
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVIS

Freedom Myself
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVIS

Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Difficult Success
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS

Enough Myself Thinking
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVIS

Bored Friendship Tears
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS

Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Stage Actors Wonderful
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
BETTE DAVIS

Achievement End Forever Goal Myself Success
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Thinking Woman
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Myself Woman
Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Old
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVIS

Hell One Way Way

Famous American actresses