Memorable Quotes and quotations from Bette Davis

Bette Davis US movie actress (1908 - 1989)


Bette Davis - The Lonely Life, 1962
- I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis - The Lonely Life, 1962
- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis - "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.
- The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

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- Getting old is not for sissies.

Bette Davis - The Lonely Life, 1962
- 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.

Bette Davis - The Lonely Life, 1962
- It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis - The Lonely Life, 1962
- My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

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

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- From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

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- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.