Anne Bancroft Quotes & Sayings

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

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations. — Anne Bancroft

Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun. — Anne Bancroft

I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it. — Anne Bancroft

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

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

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths. — Anne Bancroft

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

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

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

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

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking. — Anne Bancroft

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

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

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

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it. — Anne Bancroft

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. — Anne Bancroft

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

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

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