Bette Davis

"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate youth."

"I came out the end of the line still on my feet."

"Human nature is full of interesting contradictions."

"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."

"I often think that God is a bit of a practical joker."

"An affair now and then is good for the soul."

"I have eyes like my mother, a mouth like my father, and the same big ears they both had."

"Never, never, never, surrender."

"I was serious but not sincere."

"I love the sound of silence."

"Some people have a way of getting the best out of you."

"I've worked hard, I've tried to do the right thing and I've been a good mother."

"The past cannot be changed."

"I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown."

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."

"I would destroy myself before allowing myself to be destroyed by someone else."

"Age doesn't diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of pistachio ice cream instead of a double chocolate."

"The feelings of my smallness and of my greatness - not all the analyzing in all the consulting rooms in the world could ever make me feel better about things."

"I love my work."

"We grow up that way - you think that's what a woman is supposed to do. It's not necessarily that way."

"I'm analysis, I'm everything."

"I'm anti-Christ. I'm anti-religion."

"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell by Dickens without dissolving into tears."

"The lonely, the friendless, the rejected, the forgotten."

"I've always disliked words like esoteric or sophisticated."

"I'm nothing special in life."

"I can't say I have feelings about performing anymore."

"My mother was the same way; very sweet, very strong."

"I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

"One of my problems is that I internalize everything."