Bette Davis

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. ”

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. ”