Best 117 quotes of Bette Davis on MyQuotes

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

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

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

As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.

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

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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.

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

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.

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

Getting old is not for sissies.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.

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.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

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

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.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

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

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

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

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

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

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

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.