Theda Bara Quotes

Theda Bara was an American silent film and stage actress.Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" , later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles that encapsulated exoticism and sexual domination. Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and then retired from acting in 1926, never appearing in a sound film. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. July 1885 – 7. April 1955
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Famous Theda Bara Quotes

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

As quoted in "The Confessions of Theda Bara" http://books.google.com/books?id=634NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA57 by Agnes Smith, Photoplay Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 1 (June 1920), pp. 57–58, 110–111

“I will continue doing vampires as long as people sin.”

As quoted in Sexy Origins and Intimate Things : The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays, Bi's, Drags, Trans, Virgins, and Others (1998) Charles Panati, p. 295

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

Reportedly said around the time of her retirement, circa 1926, as quoted in Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977) by Leta W. Clark, p. 16

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