Quotes by Anne Bancroft

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

— Anne Bancroft

Wisdom

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

— Anne Bancroft

Success

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

— Anne Bancroft

Wisdom

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

— Anne Bancroft

Happiness

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

— Anne Bancroft

Life

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

— Anne Bancroft

Success

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

— Anne Bancroft

Life

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

— Anne Bancroft

Success