Tallulah Brockman Bankhead quotes Born: 01/03/1902 Died: 12/12/1968 Country: usa

• 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 hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. (Tallulah Bankhead) [life/water]
• Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• Acting is a form of confession. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• Acting is a form of confusion. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• 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. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. (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. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• My heart is as pure as the driven slush. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. (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)
• Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• There is less in this than meets the eye. (Tallulah Bankhead)
• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. (Tallulah Bankhead)

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