Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Truly
Relations
Depends
Reward
Experience
Depend
Cannot
Lasting
Form
Rewards
Human
Shape
Humans
Relation
Work
Shapes
Satisfies
More quotes by Bette Davis
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Bette Davis
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bette Davis
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
Bette Davis
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.
Bette Davis
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
Bette Davis
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
Bette Davis
Yes, burn your bridges.
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
I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
Bette Davis
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
Bette Davis
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette Davis
