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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 On successful marriage. Associated Press interview (1997)

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I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997)

To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind.

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997)

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles.

Associated Press interview (1997)

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?

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