Quotes from Bette Davis

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

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

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

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

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.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

I've lost my faith in science.

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

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.

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Success only breeds a new goal

Old age is no place for sissies.

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

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

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

I've always liked men better than women.

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.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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.