Theda Bara Quotes

You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes have the cruel cunning of Borgia, that my mouth is the mouth of the sinister scheming Delilah, that my hands are like the talons of a Circe or the blood-bathing Elizabeth Bathory. And then you ask me of my soul—you wish to know if it is reflected in my face.

To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.

I have the face of a vampire, but the heart of a feminist.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.