Bette Davis Quotes & Sayings

“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

“Old age is no place for sissies.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I will never be below the title.”

“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.”

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”

“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.”