262 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

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.

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

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

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

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.