Bette Davis Movie Quotes

#1. Thank you, Wanda. My sister. I will never forget you.
Be happy, Mel. Enjoy it all. Appreciate it for me.

Stephenie Meyer

#2. For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

Ray Bradbury

#3. Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

Bette Davis

#4. My instincts told me that death would somehow be ... different. But my rational mind reminded me that I had probably tempted fate one too many times. At least, I thought it was my rational mind. It sure seemed like the usual voice inside my head. Thank God there was only one of them.

M.A. George

#5. I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is.

Rachel Weisz

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

Bette Davis

#7. These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

#8. The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

Ben Katchor

#9. I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Guillermo Del Toro

#10. I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't ... But I am not a bully.

Chris Christie

#11. There is only one unpardonable sin
deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

Truman Capote

#12. If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Douglas Wilder

#13. Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

Elaine Stritch

#14. I think you can do your own thing as long as you're not hurting anybody else--that's been my philosophy ever since I was a little girl.

Bettie Page

#15. A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Confucius

#16. I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Gena Rowlands

#17. Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

Bette Davis