I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette Davis

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
Bette Davis

I will never be below the title.
Bette Davis

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis

I work to stay alive.
Bette Davis

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

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

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

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

I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis

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

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Bette Davis

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Bette Davis

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Bette Davis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis

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