Bette Davis

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it. ”

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. ”

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. ”