Bette Davis Quotes

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis

Marriage, Again, Dead

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

Happiness, Else, Lose

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis

Child, Parent, Hated

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

Age, Old, Place

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Bette Davis

Waiting, Sexy, Hell

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis

Funny, Hair, Kiss

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
Bette Davis

Men, Women, Become

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

Time, Best, Down

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
Bette Davis

Lived, Nicest, Goddamn

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis

Funny, Love, Marriage

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

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette Davis

Heart, Everybody, Except

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis

Life, Someone, Dead

Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis

Women, Men, Strong

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

Home, Cannot, Child

I am just too much.
Bette Davis

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis

Marriage, Good, Boring

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

Work, Life, Money

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis

Romantic, Life, Love

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette Davis

Gay, Nothing, Against

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis

Life, Acting, Bigger

I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis

Women, Men, Liked

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

Work, Impossible, Order

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis

Acting, Wonder, Creation

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis

Husband, Her, Flowers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 5, 1908

Died: October 6, 1989

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