Quotes from 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?

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

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

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

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

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

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.

I've lost my faith in science.

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

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

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

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.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.

I work to stay alive.

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

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

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.

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.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.