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

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
- Bette Davis Quote

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- Bette Davis Quote

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
- Bette Davis Quote

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.
- Bette Davis Quote

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
- Bette Davis Quote

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.
- Bette Davis Quote

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.
- Bette Davis Quote

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
- Bette Davis Quote

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
- Bette Davis Quote

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
- Bette Davis Quote

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
- Bette Davis Quote

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
- Bette Davis Quote

I will never be below the title.
- Bette Davis Quote

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.
- Bette Davis Quote

I've always liked men better than women.
- Bette Davis Quote

I've lost my faith in science.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
- Bette Davis Quote

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
- Bette Davis Quote

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

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
- Bette Davis Quote

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
- Bette Davis Quote

Old age is no place for sissies.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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.
- Bette Davis Quote

Sex is God's joke on human beings.
- Bette Davis Quote

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
- Bette Davis Quote

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

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.
- Bette Davis Quote

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.
- Bette Davis Quote

To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
- Bette Davis Quote

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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