Bette Davis

If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery... where I am sure you will all feel more at home.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

That's me an old kazoo with some sparklers.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Gay Liberation I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

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

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

I've lost my faith in science.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent

I am just too much.

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

I work to stay alive.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.