Bette Davis Quotes - Page 3

Success only breeds a new goal

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.

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

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.

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.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

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

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.

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

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

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. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

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.

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.