Bette Davis Quotes

• "A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. "
  
  
• "I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
  
  
• "Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world. "
  
  
• "Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. "
  
  
• "Everybody has a heart. Except some people. "
  
  
• "I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed. "
  
  
• "I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. "
  
  
• "I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. "
  
  
• "Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. "
  
  
• "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. "
  
  
• "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. "
  
  
• "Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. " (Now, Voyager)
  
  
• "Old age is no place for sissies. "
  
  
• "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. "
  
  
• "My darling, it is late and I am very tired of youth, love, and self-sacrifice.”
  
  
• "We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?" (All About Eve)
  
  
• "The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood."
  
  
• "Funny business, a woman's career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common - being a woman."
  
  
• "I detest cheap sentiment."

If you haven't seen a Bette Davis flick, you're missing out on gold.


Today I drove to one of my favorite places in Los Angeles. DOWNTOWN of course. Flower/Olive/First/GRAND that entire block of LA sweetness. I was visiting the courthouse for an interview and when it was over, I just aimlessly drove around the area, not wanting to go back to the purgatory that is UCLA. But let me tell you about LA's Superior Courthouse. Its 7 floors of pure madness. Yet theres still something very moving about all the crowded halls. As hectic as it was, it was all very civil too...Civil in the sense of everyone sharing the commonality of desperation. People are all the same, because people are all just trying to get by.

I saw this huge 100 person line for self-representative litigants, for family law cases. That could mean, 50 divorce claims. 45 daddys who don't want to pay child support. 5 kidnappings. IN ONE DAY. And then the line starts fresh tomorrow.

Its sad watching people get worn and torn, and to think 1 nasty court experience can callous a person for life. I see it in my mom sometimes. sometimes I feel like she wasted the majority of her adult life in court. But anyways on a happier note, I guess everything I mentioned above is why I love LA, this city of angels. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Desperation and all.

Its 2am and I'm workin on a paper about Ibsen. Bad flashbacks of English AP with Fahey. Why do we study theatre as life? Its theatre.