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
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
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. – Bette Davis
Strong women only marry weak men. – Bette Davis
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know. – Bette Davis
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. – Bette Davis
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. – Bette Davis
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
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? – Bette Davis
Old age is no place for sissies. – Bette Davis
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. – Bette Davis
