I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."