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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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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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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 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
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
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
In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
Tallulah Bankhead
A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
Tallulah Bankhead
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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
Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.
Tallulah Bankhead
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
Tallulah Bankhead
Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.
Tallulah Bankhead
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
Tallulah Bankhead
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
Tallulah Bankhead
