Bette Davis Quotes

• In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

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  Pleasure of love lasts but a moment pain of love lasts, a lifetime.

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  Tags in Lifetime, Pain, Pleasure, Moment

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

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  Tags in Wonder, Actors And Acting, Trade

• 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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  Tags in Studio, Tough

• 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.

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  Tags in Athlete, Waiting, Hell

• I work to stay alive.

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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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  Topics in Ability, Love

  Tags in Pliable, Romance

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

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  Tags in Athlete, Durable, Romance

• 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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  Tags in Athlete, Crawford, Pushed, Happened

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

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  Tags in Democrat, Athlete, Across

• When a man gives his opinion he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion she’s a bitch.

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  Tags in Athlete, Misogyny, Women, Opinions

• Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.

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  Tags in Athlete, Liberation, Against

• I’ve always liked men better than women.

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  Tags in Athlete, Liked, Women

• 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.

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  Tags in Athlete, Jungle, World

• 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

  Topics in Success, Work

  Tags in Eternity, Athlete, Seeds

• Today everyone is a star – they’re all billed as ‘starring’ or ‘also starring’. In my day, we earned that recognition.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Appreciation

  Tags in Athlete, Starring, Recognition

• 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.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Money, Work

  Tags in Gravy

• 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

  Tags in Words, Athlete, Credulity, Hiss, Slick

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

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Jest, Athlete

• I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

  Bette Davis

  Tags in Athlete, Nicest, Dame

Bette Davis (69)

Birth:	5th April, 1908
Death:	6th October, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in cinema history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was reputed for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.

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