Bette Davis

Pray to God and say the lines.

— Bette Davis

I've lost my faith in science.

— Bette Davis

Who gossips so much around here?

— Bette Davis

Yes, burn your bridges.

— Bette Davis

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

— Bette Davis

She did it the hard way.

— Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies.

— Bette Davis

Your luck is how you treat people.

— Bette Davis

“I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.”

— Bette Davis

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

— Bette Davis

You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!

— Bette Davis

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

— Bette Davis

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

— Bette Davis

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an…

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them…

— Bette Davis

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about…

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always…

— Bette Davis

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what…

— Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does…

— Bette Davis

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object…

— Bette Davis

Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white…

— Bette Davis

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would…

— Bette Davis

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big…

— Bette Davis

I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was…

— Bette Davis

“Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder-- so you can move faster-- you forget…

— Bette Davis

“When someone says, “Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day,” I usually say, “If God takes up my option.” In…

— Bette Davis

“My energies knew no bounds and I became more and more interested in civic causes, the first of which was The Tailwaggers.…

— Bette Davis

I've always liked men better than women.

— Bette Davis

I believe one should be a woman at home.

— Bette Davis

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

— Bette Davis

Success only breeds a new goal

— Bette Davis

I will never be below the title.

— Bette Davis