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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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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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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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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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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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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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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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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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