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Film Quotes by Bette Davis

182 quotes
That Certain Woman
Year: 1937

Director:
Edmund Goulding
Mary Donnell: I'm going to sell youan idea. Lay off! You'll wake up one day and find your hat floating in the lake. Who do you think will be under the hat?
-- Bette Davis (as Mary Donnell, aka Mrs. Al Haines) in That Certain Woman (1937)
That Certain Woman
Year: 1937

Director:
Edmund Goulding
Mary Donnell: You know, I believe I'm like one of those unfortunate gals you only read about in those dime novels... she only loved once.
-- Bette Davis (as Mary Donnell, aka Mrs. Al Haines) in That Certain Woman (1937)
Marked Woman
Year: 1937

Director:
Lloyd Bacon*Michael Curtiz
Mary Dwight Strauber: I'll get you, even if I have to crawl back from the grave to do it!
-- Bette Davis (as Mary Dwight Strauber) in Marked Woman (1937)
Marked Woman
Year: 1937

Director:
Lloyd Bacon*Michael Curtiz
Mary Dwight Strauber: I'm sick of making deals.
Dorothy 'Gabby' Marvin: Well, you wanna keep on living, don't you?
Mary Dwight Strauber: If this is what you call living, I don't want any part of it. Always being afraid. Never knowing from one day to the next what's going to happen to you. I'm fed up with being afraid of Vanning or anybody else. There must be some other way for me to live. If there isn't, I... well, I'd just as soon put a bullet in my head right now and end it.
-- Bette Davis (as Mary Dwight Strauber) in Marked Woman (1937)
Marked Woman
Year: 1937

Director:
Lloyd Bacon*Michael Curtiz
Mary Dwight Strauber: Please don't ask me to talk. He'll kill me.
David Graham: Now you help me to prove that he was responsible for this and I'll put him where he won't kill anybody.
Mary Dwight Strauber: You don't know what he's like! He stops at nothing. People just disappear and are never heard of again. I don't want that to happen to me.
-- Bette Davis (as Mary Dwight Strauber) in Marked Woman (1937)
Of Human Bondage
Year: 1934

Director:
John Cromwell
Mildred Rogers: [after having her baby] Funny looking little thing, isn't it? I can't believe it's mine.
-- Bette Davis (as Mildred Rogers) in Of Human Bondage (1934)
Of Human Bondage
Year: 1934

Director:
John Cromwell
Mildred Rogers: Good riddance to bad rubbish.
-- Bette Davis (as Mildred Rogers) in Of Human Bondage (1934)
Of Human Bondage
Year: 1934

Director:
John Cromwell
Mildred Rogers: You cad, you dirty swine! I never cared for you, not once! I was always makin' a fool of ya! Ya bored me stiff; I hated ya! It made me SICK when I had to let ya kiss me. I only did it because ya begged me, ya hounded me and drove me crazy! And after ya kissed me, I always used to wipe my mouth! WIPE MY MOUTH!
-- Bette Davis (as Mildred Rogers) in Of Human Bondage (1934)
Jimmy the Gent
Year: 1934

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Miss Joan Martin: [to Jimmy] You're the greatest chiseler since Michaelangelo!
-- Bette Davis (as Miss Joan Martin) in Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Jimmy the Gent
Year: 1934

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Miss Joan Martin: [to Wallingham] Are we sitting pretty or are we sitting pretty?
-- Bette Davis (as Miss Joan Martin) in Jimmy the Gent (1934)