Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

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

... 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.