Anne Bancroft movie quotes

“If a cannibal used a knife and fork, would you call that progress too?”
Anne Bancroft - Lillian DeHaven

I turned on the TV. They were playing "Queen Christina". That close-up of you at the end, I thought it would never end. I mean it just went on and on and on. Oh, God, how I hated you. I really hated myself. I thought if I looked like you, if I had that face, if I had those eyes, I wouldn't be so alone.

Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe

“Oh, God... dancers have such ugly feet.”
Anne Bancroft - Emma

“- Arnold Beckoff: Try and imagine the world the other way around. Imagine every book, every magazine, every TV show, every movie was telling you you should be homosexual. You know you're not, but...
- Ma Beckoff: Stop already, you're talking crazy.
- Arnold Beckoff: You wanna know what's crazy? After all these years I'm still sitting here trying...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff
Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff

“You want meaningful conversation? Do what I do, talk to yourself. It's the only way.”
Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff

“The good people are the fat people.”
Anne Bancroft - Antoinette

“- Anna Bronski: What's that on your coat?
- Sasha: Oh, it's the newest fashion in occupied Warsaw. Jews wear yellow stars, homosexuals wear pink triangles.
- Anna Bronski: Sasha! How awful for you!
- Sasha: I hate it.
- Anna Bronski: Now listen, they're rounding up Jews. Are they rounding up...?
- Sasha: No, no, so far, so good. Now, don't wait...” (continue)(continue reading)
Anne Bancroft - Anna Bronski
James 'Gypsy' Haake - Sasha

“- Tommy: Enough! You're a pain in my ass. You have bad hair. But I like you a lot.
- Adele: Well, you know me. I can't change.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tommy
Anne Bancroft - Adele

“- Emma: It didn't work out.
- Emilia: Oh, so what? He liked boys better than girls?
- Emma: Oh, not exactly. He knew my priority was dancing.
- Emilia: Are you... sorry?
- Emma: No. I don't believe in being sorry. We are what we are.”
Anne Bancroft - Emma
Leslie Browne - Emilia

“Walter and I got a divorce. The world's a crazy place to live in, isn't it? He thought I was eccentric.”
Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe

“- Max Conners: I've assumed my husband always filed the tax return.
- Gloria Vogal: Which one?”
Sigourney Weaver - Max Conners
Anne Bancroft - Gloria Vogal

“- Sasha: Are you all right?
- Anna Bronski: I'm fine.
- Sasha: Then why are you on the floor?
- Anna Bronski: The floor? I'm on the floor? I'm on the floor! Well, get me up.”
James 'Gypsy' Haake - Sasha
Anne Bancroft - Anna Bronski

“Come on. Where is everybody? People are starving in the former Yugoslavia.”
Anne Bancroft - Adele

“Into the house! Everyone! Before we're in the evening news!”
Anne Bancroft - Adele

“Belief is half of being.”
Anne Bancroft - Amanda

“You know, I know everybody's got to die, but I really thought I was gonna be the first exception.”
Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe

“I don't know. You love somebody. You have a child. And then it's over. Why? I don't know. It's crazy.”
Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe