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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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
Acting
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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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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.
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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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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.
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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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.
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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.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
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I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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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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It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
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