Quotes from Bette Davis

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life.

Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager

I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Getting old ain't for sissies.

It's better to be HATED for who you ARE then Loved for who you ARE NOT!

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Old age is no place for sissies!

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.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

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.

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

I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.

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

Old Age Ain't For Sissies. Taken from a Bette Davis quote.

Anything cruel I do is mental, not physical

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for any lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

I gave her a look that would exterminate lice.

One nurse told me to say please when I asked her to do something. She should consider herself luck to be in one piece today.

I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself—that way one does not really live.

Thirty-five is the age for a woman, in my opinion. Oh—to stay thirty-five forever.

joan crawford] slept with every male star at MGM, except lassie. [joan crawford] ha dormito con ogni star maschile della MGM, eccetto lassie.