Joan Bennett Quotations

I was greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don't think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.

He's been an awesome help, ... He'll help get the Web Quest page up on the web.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

With all of Constance's juggling of dates over the years, I started out as the youngest, then became her twin and finally wound up as the oldest sister.

It was wonderful. So many people came out, just genuinely wanting to support the program.

It's going to fit with what our administrator wants to do this year,

It's really nice. Everything about it is so first class, ... When again would I get this opportunity, to go and bring back this much information. What I bring back to the students ... that's the best part.

At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by Constance, but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.

I'm aware of the priceless privilege of having been born into the theater. Although it was a career I rejected at first, the profession has given me an incredibly varied life and more than my fair share of success, failure, love, laughter and despair. I've not a single regret for any of it.

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.