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

—  Theda Bara

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

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