Bette Davis

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

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

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I've lost my faith in science.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Old age is no place for sissies.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

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

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

I work to stay alive.