262 Quotes by Bette Davis

I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

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.

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

When someone says, “Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day,” I usually say, “If God takes up my option.” In the motion picture business there were once options, usually yearly. If taken up, your contract was extended for another year by the studio. It is appalling to realize that God has taken up my option for seventy-eight years.

You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’

Old Age Ain’t For Sissies. Taken from a Bette Davis quote.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

I think it’s just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.