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I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
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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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.
Tallulah Bankhead
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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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.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
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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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It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
Tallulah Bankhead
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
Tallulah Bankhead
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'
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