Bette Davis
I've always liked men better than women.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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.Collection: People
If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.Collection: Likes
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.Collection: Should
Getting old is not for sissies.Collection: Sissy
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.Collection: Happiness
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.Collection: Drinking
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.Collection: Past
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.Collection: Dull
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.Collection: Nice
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.Collection: Couple
You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.Collection: Fun
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.Collection: Disappointment
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.Collection: Heaven
It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.Collection: Intelligent
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.Collection: Larger Than Life
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.Collection: Interesting
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.Collection: Dames
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.Collection: Heartless
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.Collection: Success
The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.Collection: Ego
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.Collection: Writing
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Ambition
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.Collection: Home
I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.Collection: Thinking
Old age ain't for sissiesCollection: Inspiration
I believe one should be a woman at home.Collection: Believe
I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.Collection: Jobs
She did it the hard way.Collection: Tombstone
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Mistake
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.Collection: Mean
Success only breeds a new goalCollection: Goal
Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.Collection: Home
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.Collection: Vanity
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Mother
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Cheer
You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.Collection: Hate