262 Quotes by Bette Davis

Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother!

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

Performance number 1,000, if I play it that long, will take place in a well-padded booby-hatch.

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

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.

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

Oh, I'm rather fond of him that way. It shows that deep down he's a fake." -on her graying 1935 Oscar for Jezebel.

If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery... where I am sure you will all feel more at home.

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.