Bette Davis Quotes

I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.

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

Old age is no place for sissies.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

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

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

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.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

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

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

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

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

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

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

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

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.