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

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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Clothing

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Say
  • Japanese

• Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Bad
  • Cool
  • Reason

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Past
  • Creativity

• Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Work
  • Police
  • Criticism

• I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Character
  • Play
  • Actor

• If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Enemy

• Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Done

• They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Name

• Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Everybody
  • Clean

• I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Dream
  • Model
  • Clever

• We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Family
  • Care
  • Employees

• You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Child
  • Dinner
  • Your Child

• In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.

  

  Peter Baynham
  • Father
  • Black
  • Cancer

• I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Done
  • Business
  • Marriage

• The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Generosity

• I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • School
  • Fun
  • Husband

• 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