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

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
Bette Davis

Sex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette Davis

Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
Bette Davis

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

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

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

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

To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis

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

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis

When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
Bette Davis

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.
Bette Davis