Bette Davis Quotes

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

Yes, burn your bridges.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

Your luck is how you treat people.

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

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. … I’d found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

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

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.