There’s only one way to work––like hell. — Bette Davis

I work to stay alive. — Bette Davis

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies. — Bette Davis

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

If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day’s work out in the world, a very nerve–racking affair. — Bette Davis

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for any lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. — Bette Davis

The out–of–work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. — Bette Davis

You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her. — Bette Davis

I believe one should be a woman at home. — Bette Davis

I don’t think in business it matters whether you’re a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain. — Bette Davis

I was never very interested in boys–and there were plenty of them–vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. — Bette Davis

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete. — Bette Davis

When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch. — Bette Davis

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make–up. — Bette Davis

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably. — Bette Davis

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

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it. — Bette Davis

I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. — Bette Davis

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. — Bette Davis

I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem. — Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable… I suppose I’m larger than life. — Bette Davis

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. — Bette Davis

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

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. — Bette Davis

It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays. — Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead. — Bette Davis

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

Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. — Bette Davis

She’s the original good time who was had by all. — Bette Davis

Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars. — Bette Davis

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. — Bette Davis

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress. — Bette Davis

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star. — Bette Davis

Joan crawford] slept with every male star at MGM, except lassie. [joan crawford] ha dormito con ogni star maschile della MGM, eccetto lassie. — Bette Davis

Today everyone is a star–they’re all billed as ‘starring’ or ‘also starring’. In my day, we earned that recognition. — Bette Davis

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. — Bette Davis

I don’t think of myself as a character actress–that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it. — Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did. — Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion. — Bette Davis

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis

It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis

Burn my eyebrows and call me Bette. But if I’ve got eyebrows, don’t call me Bette–call me Davis. Then let’s make love like The Bad Sister. — Jarod Kintz

Love is not enough. it must be the foundation, the cornerstone––but not the complete structure. it is much too pliable, too yielding. — Bette Davis

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

If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right. — Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person. — Bette Davis