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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Tallulah Bankhead
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1968
Died: December 12
Actress
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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'm as pure as the driven slush.
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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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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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Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.
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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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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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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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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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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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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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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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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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