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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Tallulah Bankhead
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1968
Died: December 12
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
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[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.
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