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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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
Television Actor
Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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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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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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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 have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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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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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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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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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.
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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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Acting is a form of confession.
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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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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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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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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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