Bette Davis

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

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

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

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

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

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

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than 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 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.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

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.