Top 157 Quotes & Sayings by Bette Davis - Page 3

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

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.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Old age ain't for sissies

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

Pray to God and say the lines.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

I believe one should be a woman at home.

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.

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!

She did it the hard way.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

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.

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.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.