Quotes by Bette Davis

Bette Davis

Bette Davis

American Actress, Producer

Lived from: 1908 - 1989

Category: Movie Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 5 april 1908 Died: 6 october 1989

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  • In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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  • It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
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  • It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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  • Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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  • 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.
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  • Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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  • May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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  • 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.
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  • My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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  • Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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  • People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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  • Pray to God and say the lines.
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  • 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.
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  • Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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  • The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
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  • The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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  • The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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  • The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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  • The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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  • The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
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