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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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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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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've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
Tallulah Bankhead
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
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
Tallulah Bankhead
Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
Tallulah Bankhead
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
Tallulah Bankhead
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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
Tallulah Bankhead
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Tallulah Bankhead
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
Tallulah Bankhead
They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
Tallulah Bankhead
They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.
Tallulah Bankhead
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead
Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead
