Anne Bancroft Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

First of all, you have to marry the right person.

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

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.

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

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now - women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup. I wanted to develop my acting, not my body.

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.

To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind.

Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

When I hear his key in the lock at night my heart starts to beat faster. I'm just so happy he's coming home. We have so much fun.

Trivia

Anne and her husband Mel Brooks had a child in 1972 called Max Brooks.

"When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: 'Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen - with my head in the oven'."