262 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

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.

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