Quotes By Bette Davis

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.

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.

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

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

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

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

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

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

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.

I will never be below the title.

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.

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

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

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

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.

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

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

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

I've lost my faith in science.

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.

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

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

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

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

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

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.