Quotes by Bette Davis

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.

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.

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

I’ve lost my faith in science.

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

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

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

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

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.