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

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.

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

Bette Davis

Work

Order

Strong women only marry weak men.

Bette Davis

Men

Women

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Bette Davis

Relax

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

I've lost my faith in science.

Bette Davis

Faith

Science

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

I will never be below the title.

Bette Davis

Will

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

Bette Davis

Ladies

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Bette Davis

Dying

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

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.

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

Love

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Bette Davis