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Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare...

I read Shakespeare...

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal...

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Acting is a...

Acting is a...

Acting is a form of confusion.

Source: Tallulah. 1952.
-- Tallulah Bankhead,...

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Nobody can be...

Nobody can be...

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Source: In...

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The only thing...

The only thing...

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes,...

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If you really...

If you really...

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an...

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I have three...

I have three...

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I...

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I've been called...

I've been called...

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Source: Tallulah, ch. 15,...

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Here's a rule...

Here's a rule...

Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.

Source: Tallulah....

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Let's not quibble!...

Let's not quibble!...

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose...

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It's one of...

It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work --the night...

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Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Dahling Congressman Boykin: 10 AM is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the...

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I am as...

I am as...

I am as pure as the driven slush.

Source:
-- Tallulah Bankhead, (Jan 31...

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I'll come and...

I'll come and...

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

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Cocaine habit-forming?...

Cocaine habit-forming?...

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

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I thought I...

I thought I...

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Source: On seeing a former lover after an...

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Nobody can be...

Nobody can be...

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Source:...

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I have been...

I have been...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free...

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I've tried several...

I've tried several...

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff...

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It's one of...

It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night...

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No man worth...

No man worth...

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the...

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