Anne Bancroft movie quotes

“She'll only break your heart, it's a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you'll still pursue her. Ain't love grand?”
Anne Bancroft - Ms. Dinsmoor

“You cheated me out of your life and then blamed me for not being there.”

Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff

“Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death.”
Anne Bancroft

“- Arnold Beckoff: Ma... I miss him.
- Ma Beckoff: Give yourself time, Arnold. It gets better... But, Arnold, it never goes away. You can work longer hours, adopt a son, fight with me, whatever... it'll still be there. But that's all right, it becomes a part of you, like learning to wear a ring or a pair of eyeglasses. You get used to it. And...” (continue)(continue reading)

Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff
Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff

“- Ma Beckoff: Friend-friend, or euphemism-friend?
- David: He used to be a euphemism, now he's just a friend.”
Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff
Eddie Castrodad - David

“- Nazi officer: You are sitting in Col. Erhardt's chair.
- Anna Bronksi: Oh, how silly of me. Ten minutes ago it was my chair.”
Anne Bancroft - Anna Bronski

“- Estelle Rolfe: I wanna meet Garbo!
- Gilbert Rolfe: Why?
- Estelle Rolfe: Why shouldn't I? I'm dying!”
Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe
Ron Silver - Gilbert Rolfe

- Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: You want an example? I take her out to dinner, I order dessert, she says she doesn't want any, I get pecan pie. She asks me for a bite, I give her a bite, her face swells up like a chipmunk, she looks at me and says, "Oh, my God, are there nuts in this?"
- Ruth Schram: So what?
- Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: Mom! It... (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Rabbi Jake Schram
Anne Bancroft - Ruth Schram

“If your head's in the toilet, don't blow bubbles.”
Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe

“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

“You have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.”
Anne Bancroft

“No politician can afford to let women come home in body bags.”
Anne Bancroft - Lillian DeHaven

“- Ma Beckoff: Arnold, think about the boy. The way you live is bound to affect him!
- Arnold Beckoff: Ma, David is gay!
- Ma Beckoff: He hasn't even been here a year!
- Arnold Beckoff: He came that way!
- Ma Beckoff: Nobody comes that way!
- Arnold Beckoff: What an opening!”

Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“Henry! A car full of Larsons almost died there!”
Anne Bancroft - Adele

“- Doctor Martha Livingston: Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?
- Mother Miriam Ruth: Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.
- Doctor Martha Livingston: Long, thin, and filtered!
- Mother Miriam Ruth: St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Seymour Fonda - Doctor Martha Livingston
Anne Bancroft - Mother Miriam Ruth

“- Anna Bronski: All these flowers on a Lieutenant's pay, you shouldn't have.
- Lieutenant Andre Sobinski: That's ok. My father is a florist.”
Anne Bancroft - Anna Bronski
Tim Matheson - Lt. Andre Sobinski

“- Esmeralda: Estelle, our contract is up the first of the year. They want to raise us from 7.10 an hour to 7.90. None of us knows what to do? I mean, we do not make waves.
- Estelle Rolfe: Make waves.
- Esmeralda: We don't want to start something.
- Estelle Rolfe: Start something.
- Esmeralda: Okay!”
Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe
Antonia Rey - Esmeralda

“After all, a problem is never as permanent as a solution!”
Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff

“- Mrs. Kendal: Why, Mr. Merrick, you're not an elephant man at all.
- John Merrick: Oh no?
- Mrs. Kendal: Oh no... no... you're a Romeo.”
Anne Bancroft - Mrs. Kendal
Sir John Hurt - John Merrick

“I'm giving thanks that we don't have to go through this for another year. Except we do, because those bastards went and put Christmas right in the middle, just to punish us.”
Anne Bancroft - Adele

“First you invade Poland, then you invade Warsaw, then you invade my dressing room... you people are compulsive invaders!”

Anne Bancroft - Anna Bronski

One mistake. You said "after we die eternity begins". Eternity has no beginning, it has no end. Eternity can't come after life, eternity includes life. We make eternity, every hour, every day, every second. We choose what our eternity will be.
Anne Bancroft - Nun

“- Doctor Martha Livingston: The Catholic Church doesn't have a corner on morality.
- Mother Miriam Ruth: Who said anything about the Catholic Church?
- Doctor Martha Livingston: You just did.
- Mother Miriam Ruth: What the hell does the Catholic Church got to do with you?
- Doctor Martha Livingston: Nothing.
- Mother Miriam Ruth: What have we...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Seymour Fonda - Doctor Martha Livingston
Anne Bancroft - Mother Miriam Ruth

“- Queen: Everyone has their place, Bala. You, the soldiers, the workers... Oh, it's not all that bad being princess, is it? Would you prefer to be carting around dirt all day?
- Princess Bala: Oh, Mother, don't be so dramatic.”
Anne Bancroft - Queen
Sharon Stone - Princess Bala

“My dear, I don't think a Communion wafer has the recommended daily allowance of anything.”

Anne Bancroft - Mother Miriam Ruth