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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
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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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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Acting is a form of confession.
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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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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 had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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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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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
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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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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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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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For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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