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All Quotes by author - Tallulah Bankhead

" Acting is a form of confession. "

" Acting is a form of confusion. "

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

" 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. "

" I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. "

" If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm as pure as the driven slush. "

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

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

" It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. "

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

" My heart is as pure as the driven slush. "

" Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. "

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

" Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. "

" (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. "

" Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. "

" The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. "

" 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. "

" There is less in this than meets the eye. "

" They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. "

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