Bette Davis Quotes - Page 4

Yes, burn your bridges.

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

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

I will never be below the title.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Strong women only marry weak men.

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.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

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.