Quotes from Bette Davis

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

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.

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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

Getting old is not for sissies.

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 have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.

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

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

Success only breeds a new goal

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

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

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

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

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

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. The money is the gravy.

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

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.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.