Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Probably
Situation
Part
Perplexed
Women
Essential
Whole
Essentials
Writing
Writers
Think
Female
Thinking
Theater

More quotes by Bette Davis

Image
You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
Bette Davis
Image
If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
Bette Davis
Image
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
Image
Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis
Image
Yes, burn your bridges.
Bette Davis
Image
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
Bette Davis
Image
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
Bette Davis
Image
Pray to God and say the lines.
Bette Davis
Image
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Bette Davis
Image
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis
Image
I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis
Image
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
Image
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis
Image
I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
Bette Davis
Image
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
Image
I work to stay alive.
Bette Davis
Image
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
Bette Davis
Image
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette Davis
Image
You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
Bette Davis
Image
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
Bette Davis