Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Survived
Empowering
Anybody
Else
Women
Tougher
More quotes by Bette Davis
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
Bette Davis
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
Bette Davis
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
Bette Davis
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis
[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
Bette Davis
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis
I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis
It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
Bette Davis
You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
Bette Davis
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
Bette Davis
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
Bette Davis
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bette Davis
