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Anne Bancroft Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1931 - June 6, 2005

Topics

Grateful I Am Me You I Am What I Am

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

John Legend

Music Soul You Know Jazz Rock

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You Choose Down Place Student New

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

John White Geary

Daily Roads Armed Mere Occurrence

There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.

Sonita Alizadeh

Giving Trying Giving Up Up About

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Steven Pinker

Death Chance Violence Alive Dying

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

Rory Bremner

Bird Think Fortune Comedians Well

A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

Marvin Sapp

Life Success Friend Legacy Think

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Mary McDonnell

Work Love Complexity I Love

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

Luke Ford

Life Day Follow Study Over Hours

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

Jose Padilha

Science Looks Sometimes Out Like

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.

Noah Baumbach

Change Music Time People Friends Go

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

Keke Palmer

Moment New York Amazing Hair Think