Bette Davis

"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. "

"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. "

"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. "

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

"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. "

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. "

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose. "

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. "

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. "

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. "

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. "

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. "

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. "