A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
BETTE DAVIS I am just too much.
BETTE DAVIS Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
BETTE DAVIS Strong women only marry weak men.
BETTE DAVIS I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the...
BETTE DAVIS Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a chi...
BETTE DAVIS Sex is God's joke on human beings.
BETTE DAVIS Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
BETTE DAVIS I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and s...
BETTE DAVIS Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
BETTE DAVIS That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
BETTE DAVIS To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the...
BETTE DAVIS I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, an...
BETTE DAVIS The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
BETTE DAVIS The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bott...
BETTE DAVIS It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for last...
BETTE DAVIS When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
BETTE DAVIS I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the ...
BETTE DAVIS If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such t...
BETTE DAVIS Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
BETTE DAVIS My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression...
BETTE DAVIS The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottom...
BETTE DAVIS Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVIS The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand...
BETTE DAVIS Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such ...
BETTE DAVIS There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the...
BETTE DAVIS I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS Old age is no place for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS I survived because I was tougher than anybody else
BETTE DAVIS I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Cra...
BETTE DAVIS Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child c...
BETTE DAVIS I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
BETTE DAVIS I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
BETTE DAVIS There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. t...
BETTE DAVIS I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds...
BETTE DAVIS Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It ...
BETTE DAVIS The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
BETTE DAVIS This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happen...
BETTE DAVIS I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was prob...
BETTE DAVIS Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable...
BETTE DAVIS It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasti...
BETTE DAVIS If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
BETTE DAVIS I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVIS Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such t...
BETTE DAVIS To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is t...
BETTE DAVIS I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an ...
BETTE DAVIS I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a...
BETTE DAVIS This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy shou...
BETTE DAVIS Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It ...
BETTE DAVIS To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the ...
BETTE DAVIS Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It...
BETTE DAVIS Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces...
BETTE DAVIS [when told not to speak ill of the dead] 'Just because someone is dead does not mean they have chang...
BETTE DAVIS I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? "She did it the hard way."
BETTE DAVIS That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
BETTE DAVIS I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVIS Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night!
BETTE DAVIS Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, tho...
BETTE DAVIS I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and gu...
BETTE DAVIS Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVIS I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of you...
BETTE DAVIS I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
BETTE DAVIS A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else
BETTE DAVIS I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
BETTE DAVIS It is my last wish to be buried sitting up.
BETTE DAVIS My darling,it is late and I am very tired of youth,love,and self-sacrafice.
BETTE DAVIS I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex ...
BETTE DAVIS I've lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to kn...
BETTE DAVIS I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see ...
BETTE DAVIS She is the original good time that was had by all.
BETTE DAVIS People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they ...
BETTE DAVIS An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ough...
BETTE DAVIS I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVIS We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?
BETTE DAVIS I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes dis...
BETTE DAVIS I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
BETTE DAVIS You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex t...
BETTE DAVIS Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all...
BETTE DAVIS If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd...
BETTE DAVIS If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery... where I am sure you...
BETTE DAVIS Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've take...
BETTE DAVIS Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than ...
BETTE DAVIS "Oh, I'm rather fond of him that way. It shows that deep down he's a fake." -on her graying 1935 Osc...
BETTE DAVIS Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We nev...
BETTE DAVIS If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was prob...
BETTE DAVIS You can't say I didn't fall for you.
BETTE DAVIS Who gossips so much around here?
BETTE DAVIS Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVIS There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned...
BETTE DAVIS I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
BETTE DAVIS Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone / but not the complete structure. It ...
BETTE DAVIS When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
BETTE DAVIS The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS I must start wearing a watch. I never have you know.
BETTE DAVIS I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
BETTE MIDLER After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
BETTE MIDLER My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
BETTE MIDLER Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone w...
BETTE MIDLER Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLER Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
BETTE MIDLER When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
BETTE MIDLER If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
BETTE MIDLER I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLER Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'l...
BETTE MIDLER I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequi...
BETTE MIDLER The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLER Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll ...
BETTE MIDLER For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacl...
BETTE HOWLAND It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
BETTE MIDLER I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
BETTE MIDLER I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
BETTE MIDLER Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
BETTE MIDLER I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a ...
BETTE MIDLER It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that ...
BETTE MIDLER It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
BETTE MIDLER I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept of...
BETTE MIDLER I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's g...
BETTE MIDLER I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLER Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.
BETTE PAGE My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, ...
BETTE PAGE I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.
BETTE PAGE I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
BETTE PAGE For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, ...
BETTE PAGE I was never the girl next door.
BETTE PAGE It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young peo...
BETTE PAGE If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to?
BETTE MIDDLER Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
BETTE MIDLER Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
BETTE MIDLER I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins a...
BETTE MIDLER If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
BETTE MIDLER I never know how much of what I say is true.
BETTE MIDLER I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's ...
BETTE MIDLER Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only...
BETTE MIDLER The only trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance
BETTE MIDLER If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
BETTE MIDLER We're looking at a consolidation with U.S. Steel as leader, with four or five different steel compan...
BETTE KOVACH It absorbs faster than cotton.
BETTE KAHN I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLER Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER When they transplant a heart, they cut the nerves. The pains must have been caused by his heart hitt...
BETTE SANDERSON It costs more to die than to be born. You'd think it would be the other way around.
BETTE SANDERSON The total sold is not serious. It can be absorbed, but the perception that other banks may sell and ...
BETTE RAPTOPOULOS The market's going to go lower. Ultimately it will stabilize and then we can begin to see some sort ...
BETTE RAPTOPOULOS I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to...
BETTE PAGE I told her, as long as you're safe, that's the main thing. The rest is just stuff.
BETTE LASKY Looking at local news down there, it's hard to know what's going on.
BETTE LASKY It's worrisome, obviously. We've had some anxious days.
BETTE LASKY Homer Labs was regarded as the finest steelmaking research and development facility in terms of cali...
BETTE KOVACH We know employees value the company match, and it's been a mainstay of our program, but we needed to...
BETTE KOVACH It has had an impact on us, but we haven't had any layoffs. We have reduced our volumes, prices have...
BETTE KOVACH Creating a vaccine to prevent transmission of HIV, or at least to limit its pathogenic and epidemic ...
BETTE KORBER Theoretical results suggest a small number of proteins may have the potential to give global coverag...
BETTE KORBER We felt we had left behind our 20- to 30-year-old customer. But CB2 turned into something bigger. It...
BETTE KAHN Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like...
BETTE MIDLER What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
BETTE GREENE Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experi...
BETTE GREENE Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences) worth writi...
BETTE GREENE A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.
BETTE MIDLER I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but s...
BETTE PAGE After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
BETTE MIDLER [(CNN) -- One of several emotional high points in Sunday's] Prayer for America ... Wind Beneath My W...
BETTE MIDLER As Time Goes By.
BETTE MIDLER The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLER I'm working my way toward divinity.
BETTE MIDLER If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it
BETTE MIDLER If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.
BETTE MIDLER Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll...
BETTE MIDLER I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLER I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a ...
BETTE MIDLER I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.
BETTE MIDLER Is That All There Is,
BETTE MIDLER Palladium is used a lot for electronic purposes -- new usages now that are in the high-tech area. So...
BETTE RAPTOPOULOS I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I...
BETTE MIDLER Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyo...
BETTE MIDLER I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard wo...
BETTE MIDLER