"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."

(Anna Neagle, nome d'arte di Florence Marjorie Robertson, attrice; Forest Gate, 20 ottobre 1904 – West Byfleet, 3 giugno 1986)