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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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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More quotes by Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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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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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 read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
Tallulah Bankhead
They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead
Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.
Tallulah Bankhead
There is less in this than meets the eye.
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.
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Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
Tallulah Bankhead
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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.'
Tallulah Bankhead
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead
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.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
Tallulah Bankhead
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead
