When someone says, “Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day,” I usually say, “If God takes up my option.” In the motion picture business there were once options, usually yearly. If taken up, your contract was extended for another year by the studio. It is appalling to realize that God has taken up my option for seventy-eight years.

— Bette Davis

Bette Davis Quotes

It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.

— Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can’t be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it’s just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

— Bette Davis

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day’s work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

— Bette Davis

I believe one should be a woman at home.

— Bette Davis

I don’t think in business it matters whether you’re a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

— Bette Davis

One can make more enemies as a female with a brain I think.

— Bette Davis

As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.

— Bette Davis

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

— Bette Davis

If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.

— Bette Davis

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

— Bette Davis

I think it’s just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

— Bette Davis

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

— Bette Davis

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood.

— Bette Davis

I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself – that way one does not really live.

— Bette Davis

Daddy in his infinite knowledge always saw the roots and not the flowers. He took all the watches of the world apart and never knew what time it was.

— Bette Davis

Anything cruel I do is mental, not physical.

— Bette Davis

When someone says, “Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day,” I usually say, “If God takes up my option.” In the motion picture business there were once options, usually yearly. If taken up, your contract was extended for another year by the studio. It is appalling to realize that God has taken up my option for seventy-eight years.

— Bette Davis

I gave her a look that would exterminate lice.

— Bette Davis

One nurse told me to say please when I asked her to do something. She should consider herself luck to be in one piece today.

— Bette Davis

I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.

— Bette Davis
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