Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life.” — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager” — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image