Bette Davis

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Old age is no place for sissies.

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.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

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

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.

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.

I've lost my faith in science.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

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

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.