Quotes by Bette Davis

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

"I work to stay alive."

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

"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."

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

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"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 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."

"I've always liked men better than women."

"Strong women only marry weak men."

"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."

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

"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."

"I've lost my faith in science."

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

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

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."

"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."