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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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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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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.
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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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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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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
Tallulah Bankhead
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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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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[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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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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It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.
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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
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
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
Tallulah Bankhead
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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