"When I arrived in town, the movie industry was looking for sexpot glamor girls. I didn't qualify. Nor was I ever offered a top-flight movie. But there isn't any bitterness on my part. I wasn't as good an actress then as I am now."

(Anna Maria Louise Italiano, conosciuta come Anne Bancroft, attrice, regista e sceneggiatrice; New York, 17 settembre 1931 – New York, 6 giugno 2005)