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Tallulah Bankhead
January 31, 1903 - December 12, 1968
Nationality: American
Category: Actress
Subcategory: American Actress

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Acting is a form of confession.

   

They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

   

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

   

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

   

Acting is a form of confusion.

   

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

   

There is less in this than meets the eye.

   

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.

   

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