Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Bennett

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Joan Bennett.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Joan Bennett

Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film, and television actress. She came from a show-business family, one of three acting sisters. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 films from the era of silent movies, well into the sound era. She is best remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies—including Man Hunt (1941), The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945)—and for her television role as matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in the gothic 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows, for which she received an Emmy nomination in 1968.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.
I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.
If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine. — © Joan Bennett
If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
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.
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