Top 140 Bette Davis Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.”

— Bette Davis

102. “I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.”

— Bette Davis

103. “You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.”

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

105. “Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.”

— Bette Davis

106. “I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.”

— Bette Davis

107. “It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.”

— Bette Davis

108. “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.”

— Bette Davis

109. “I’ve lost my faith in science.”

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

111. “I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.”

— Bette Davis

112. “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.”

— Bette Davis

113. “Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.”

— Bette Davis

114. “I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.”

— Bette Davis

115. “The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood.”

— Bette Davis

116. “The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.”

— Bette Davis

117. “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.”

— Bette Davis

118. “With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.”

— Bette Davis

119. “I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.”

— Bette Davis

120. “I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.”

— Bette Davis

121. “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.”

— Bette Davis

122. “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.”

— Bette Davis

123. “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.”

— Bette Davis

124. “The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.”

— Bette Davis

125. “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.”

— Bette Davis

126. “Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.”

— Bette Davis

127. “I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.”

— Bette Davis

128. “I think it’s just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.”

— Bette Davis

129. “Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.”

— Bette Davis

130. “I believe one should be a woman at home.”

— Bette Davis

131. “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.”

— Bette Davis

132. “Anything cruel I do is mental, not physical.”

— Bette Davis

133. “People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.”

— Bette Davis

134. “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.”

— Bette Davis

135. “We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.”

— Bette Davis

136. “I will never be below the title.”

— Bette Davis

137. “One can make more enemies as a female with a brain I think.”

— Bette Davis

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

— Bette Davis

139. “Daddy in his infinite knowledge always saw the roots and not the flowers. He took all the watches of the world apart and never knew what time it was.”

— Bette Davis

140. “One nurse told me to say please when I asked her to do something. She should consider herself luck to be in one piece today.”

— Bette Davis

141. “I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.”

— Bette Davis

142. “I gave her a look that would exterminate lice.”

— Bette Davis

143. “I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself – that way one does not really live.”

— Bette Davis