You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
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.