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All Quotes by author - Bette Davis

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

" From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. "

" Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. "

" 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. "

" I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair. "

" I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. "

" I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. "

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

" I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. "

" In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star. "

" I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. "

" I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. "

" I survived because I was tougher than anybody else. "

" It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. "

" Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. "

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

" Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. "

" Old age is no place for sissies. "

" That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers. "

" The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. "

" 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. "

" This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. "

" 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. "

" To look back is to relax one's vigil. "

" Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. "

" Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. "

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