Theda Bara

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

Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955), a silent film actress popularly known as "The Vamp."

Attributed

There is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

• To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.
  • Attributed in Agnes Smith, "The Confessions of Theda Bara", Photoplay Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 1 (June 1920), pp. 57–58, 110–111

• The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
  • Attributed in Leta W. Clark, Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977), p. 16

Quotes about Theda Bara

• After Theda Barra appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.
  • Mary Pickford, "To Be Or Not To Be a Vampire", The Day (New London, CT), 16 May 1916, p. 11

External links

• Theda Bara at the Internet Movie Database