Theda Bara Quotes

#1. That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

Connie Willis

#2. After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.

Mary Pickford

#3. The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Diego Rivera

#4. To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

Theda Bara

#5. At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#6. During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.

Theda Bara

#7. My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

Carmen Electra

#8. Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.

Theda Bara

#9. We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

Burt Rutan

#10. I have the face of a vampire, but the heart of a feminist.

Theda Bara

#11. The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.

Victor Lewis-Smith

#12. The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

Harry Cohn

#13. People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.

Mary Gaitskill

#15. The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Theda Bara

#16. I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

Virginia Woolf

#17. You born to be happy, so love everyone like a happy puppy.

Debasish Mridha

#18. My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Elliott Carter

#19. I run for miles but don't count them, passing dark house after dark house. I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping. I

Jennifer Niven

#20. It is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of the creature to God, of the Son to the Father - it is the secret of blessedness, the desire to be nothing, that allows God to be all in all.

Andrew Murray