Film Quotes by Bette Davis
182 quotes
Year: 1950
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Lloyd Richards:
You've been talking to that venomous fishwife Addison DeWitt!
Margo Channing: In this case, apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac!
Margo Channing: In this case, apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac!
--
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Year: 1950
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Year: 1952
Director:
Stuart Heisler
Director:
Stuart Heisler
Jim Johannson aka Barry Lester:
[while at the zoo, a seal is barking loudly] Listen to that seal!
Margaret Elliott: Sounds like my brother-in-law!
Margaret Elliott: Sounds like my brother-in-law!
--
Bette Davis
(as Margaret Elliot)
in
The Star
(1952)
Year: 1937
Director:
Archie Mayo
Director:
Archie Mayo
Basil Underwood:
Alright Joyce, I'm reaching for my gun.
Joyce Arden: Wait, I believe the trigger's at the rear end.
Joyce Arden: Wait, I believe the trigger's at the rear end.
--
Bette Davis
(as Joyce Arden)
in
It's Love I'm After
(1937)
Year: 1937
Director:
Archie Mayo
Director:
Archie Mayo
Basil Underwood:
We'll be married tomorrow!
Joyce Arden: Not to me you won't! Not tomorrow or tomorrow, or tomorrow!
Joyce Arden: Not to me you won't! Not tomorrow or tomorrow, or tomorrow!
--
Bette Davis
(as Joyce Arden)
in
It's Love I'm After
(1937)
Year: 1934
Director:
John Cromwell
Director:
John Cromwell
Philip Carey:
I thought you were never coming.
Mildred Rogers: Ooh, like that. After keeping me waiting. I almost went home.
Philip Carey: I was in the second class waiting room. I thought you said you'd be there.
Mildred Rogers: No, I said "is it likely I would sit in the second class if I could sit in the first?" For a gentleman of brains you don't use them, do ya?
Philip Carey: Perhaps not. Anyway you're here, so it's alright, isn't it?
Mildred Rogers: You certainly do make a girl feel important to ya.
Mildred Rogers: Ooh, like that. After keeping me waiting. I almost went home.
Philip Carey: I was in the second class waiting room. I thought you said you'd be there.
Mildred Rogers: No, I said "is it likely I would sit in the second class if I could sit in the first?" For a gentleman of brains you don't use them, do ya?
Philip Carey: Perhaps not. Anyway you're here, so it's alright, isn't it?
Mildred Rogers: You certainly do make a girl feel important to ya.
--
Bette Davis
(as Mildred Rogers)
in
Of Human Bondage
(1934)
Year: 1938
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Preston:
[stands at the door] Goodbye Julie.
Julie: [looks at Preston slightly shocked] Is that all you've got to say to me?
Preston: There's nothing more to say.
Julie: Evidently you've made up your mind
Preston: No Julie, you've made up my mind.
Julie: [looks at Preston and smiles slightly] Goodbye Pres.
[shakes his hand eyes him carefully, frowns and then slaps him]
Preston: Goodbye Julie.
Julie: [looks at Preston slightly shocked] Is that all you've got to say to me?
Preston: There's nothing more to say.
Julie: Evidently you've made up your mind
Preston: No Julie, you've made up my mind.
Julie: [looks at Preston and smiles slightly] Goodbye Pres.
[shakes his hand eyes him carefully, frowns and then slaps him]
Preston: Goodbye Julie.
--
Bette Davis
(as Julie)
in
Jezebel
(1938)
Year: 1938
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
[Julie presents the red dress to her fiancee, Preston]
Preston Dillard: You never saw an unmarried girl in anything but white.
Julie Marsden: Then you're gonna see one tomorrow night.
Preston Dillard: You never saw an unmarried girl in anything but white.
Julie Marsden: Then you're gonna see one tomorrow night.
--
Bette Davis
(as Julie)
in
Jezebel
(1938)
Year: 1955
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
[the Queen enters as Raleigh is on his knees trying to pick up Beth Throgmorton's broken pearl necklace]
Queen Elizabeth I: [to Beth] Is this your pet swine? You've cast your pearls before him.
Queen Elizabeth I: [to Beth] Is this your pet swine? You've cast your pearls before him.
--
Bette Davis
(as Queen Elizabeth I)
in
The Virgin Queen
(1955)
Year: 1952
Director:
Stuart Heisler
Director:
Stuart Heisler
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Bette Davis
(as Margaret Elliot)
in
The Star
(1952)