Bette Davis

Actress

1908-04-05 – 1989-10-06

Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater whose career helped redefine dramatic roles for women in Hollywood. She won two Academy Awards and remains one of classic cinema's most influential performers.

Quotes by Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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I will never be below the title.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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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.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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