Bette Davis Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

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

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

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

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Your luck is how you treat people.

[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

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.

One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.

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

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

She's the original good time who was had by all.

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.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

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

Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?