Top 35 Anne Bancroft Quotes
#1. The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Andrew Sarris
#2. I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
Marcia Gay Harden
#3. My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland
#4. I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
Laura Dern
#5. I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
Patty Duke
#6. The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.
Anne Bancroft
#8. The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.
Anne Bancroft
#9. Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. 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
#11. Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#12. The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.
Anne Bancroft
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
Anne Bancroft
#17. My heart flutters whenever I hear his key
Turning int he door, and I think to myself,
Oh goody, the party is about to begin.
Anne Bancroft
#18. Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.
Anne Bancroft
#19. Family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.
Anne Bancroft
#20. If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude ... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Hedy Lamarr
#21. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
Anne Bancroft
#22. Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.
Anuj
#23. Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.
Anne Bancroft
#25. I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
Dave Mustaine
#26. I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.
Anne Bancroft
#27. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
Anne Bancroft
#28. Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.
Anne Bancroft
#29. I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and they meet me again later, I'm the same dude they spoke to and ain't nothing changed.
Sheek Louch
#30. The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.
Anne Bancroft
#31. I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.
Rachel Maddow
#32. For a moment this good time would never end
You and me
Just wasting time
I was kissing you
You were kissing me love
From good day into a moonlight
Dave Matthews
#34. I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.
Anne Bancroft
#35. 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
