Bette Davis Quotes

I am just too much.

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

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.

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Getting old is not for sissies.

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.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

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

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.

I never wished I’d been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled professionally and personally, as a woman. There are some who might say I had penis envy, but I only had penis admiration.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Success only breeds a new goal

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.