110+ Bette Davis Quotes On Joan Crawford, Aging And Death

Bette Davis was an American actress of stage and screen. She was known for her strong performances and was one of the most iconic actresses of the 20th century. She won two Academy Awards for her roles in Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938). Following is our collection on famous quotes by Bette Davis on joan crawford, aging, love.

Top 10 Bette Davis Quotes

1. There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
2. Getting old is not for sissies.
3. You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
4. My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
5. If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
6. I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
7. 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.
8. It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
9. Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
10. I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

Bette Davis Image Quotes

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. — Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis

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

Old age is no place for sissies. — Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Short Quotes

• If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
• The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
• I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
• You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
• Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
• It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
• Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
• I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
• You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
• Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.

Bette Davis Quotes About Joan Crawford

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

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

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress. — Bette Davis

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going. — Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Quotes About Aging

Old age is no place for sissies. — Bette Davis

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal. — Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it. — Bette Davis

Old age ain't for sissies — Bette Davis

Old age ain't no place for sissies. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Quotes About Love

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — 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 of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over. — Bette Davis

[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. — Bette Davis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. — Bette Davis

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

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. — Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. — Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. — Bette Davis

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Quotes About Work

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

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. — Bette Davis

This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis

I work to stay alive. — Bette Davis

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies. — Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. — Bette Davis

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine. — Bette Davis

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Quotes About Life

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. — Bette Davis

As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment. — Bette Davis

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

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Quotes About Marriage

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. — Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Quotes About Acting

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. — Bette Davis

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

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

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. — Bette Davis

Bette Davis Famous Quotes And Sayings

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. — Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis

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

Old age is no place for sissies. — 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 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. — Bette Davis

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. — Bette Davis

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

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. — Bette Davis

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. — 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 advantage: make-up. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. — Bette Davis

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. — Bette Davis

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. — Bette Davis

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. — Bette Davis

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

Sex is God's joke on human beings. — Bette Davis

I am just too much. — Bette Davis

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

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! — Bette Davis

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling. — Bette Davis

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

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again. — Bette Davis

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. — Bette Davis

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

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying. — Bette Davis

Strong women only marry weak men. — Bette Davis

She did it the hard way. — Bette Davis

Pray to God and say the lines. — Bette Davis

Success only breeds a new goal — Bette Davis

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

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

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

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. — Bette Davis

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. — Bette Davis

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. — Bette Davis

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. — Bette Davis

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! — Bette Davis

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. — Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. — Bette Davis

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. — Bette Davis

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! As Margo Channing in All About Eve — Bette Davis

I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later. — Bette Davis

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

Everybody has a heart. Except some people. — Bette Davis

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers. — Bette Davis

Your luck is how you treat people. — Bette Davis

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over. — Bette Davis

I've always liked men better than women. — Bette Davis

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. — 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 anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself. — Bette Davis

Life Lessons by Bette Davis

1. Bette Davis taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard it may seem. She was determined to make it in Hollywood and worked hard to make her dreams a reality.
2. Bette Davis also showed us the importance of standing up for ourselves and never letting anyone take advantage of us. She was a strong advocate for her own rights and was not afraid to speak her mind.
3. Lastly, Bette Davis taught us to be resilient and to never let failure stop us from trying again. She was not afraid to take risks and always put her best foot forward, no matter the outcome.