13 Bette Davis Quotes on Career

Bette Davis quotes on career

7. I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

9. Performance number 1,000, if I play it that long, will take place in a well-padded booby-hatch.

21. I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

23. I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

29. I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

30. I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd want to get me at the end of the picture?

32. I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

35. I will never be below the title.

36. I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

37. I work to stay alive.

45. In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

48. Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

64. Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.