I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. Bette Davis More Quotes by Bette Davis More Quotes From Bette Davis It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people. Bette Davis hated sometimes people You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good. Bette Davis bad-things should If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right. Bette Davis likes ifs There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. Bette Davis glasses wine drinking Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic. Bette Davis swings grandmother nice You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Bette Davis expectations weight-loss happiness Getting old is not for sissies. Bette Davis getting-old sissy If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull. Bette Davis you-re-pretty likes dull If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. Bette Davis mom mother children There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going. Bette Davis ifs may heaven 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 passion work hands 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 marriage inspirational funny A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. Bette Davis want happy happiness Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all. Bette Davis difficult success 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. Bette Davis dream inspirational life Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. Bette Davis life-is past I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment. Bette Davis ostriches eye hair Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success. Bette Davis success-and-failure inherent disappointment It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis pain missing-you i-miss-you One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think. Bette Davis brain enemy thinking
