Quotes from Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

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

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

She's the original good time who was had by all.

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

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.

I work to stay alive.

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

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.

I will never be below the title.

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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.

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

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

I've always liked men better than women.

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

[Of a starlet:] There goes the famous good time that was had by all.