Bette Davis Quotes

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.

By Bette Davis

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.

By Bette Davis

I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

By Bette Davis

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! As Margo Channing in All About Eve

By Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

By Bette Davis

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.

By 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.

By 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. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

There goes the famous good time that was had by all.

By Bette Davis

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.

By Bette Davis

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

By Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

By Bette Davis

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.

By Bette Davis

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.

By Bette Davis

Getting old is not for sissies.

By Bette Davis

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis

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

By Bette Davis