Tallulah Bankhead Quotes - Page 2

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• I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Enemy, Fame, Mets

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Want, Actresses, Helping

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sex, Practice, Two

  Tallulah ch. 4 (1952)

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• [On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Years, Age, Wit

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• I'm as pure as the driven slush.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sex, Driven, Pure

  Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 12 Apr. 1947

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• 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, Hate, Water

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Republican, Communist

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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.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sea, Acting, Actors

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• Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Ambition, Mind, Remember

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Mistake

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Girl, Writing, Diaries

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• Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Fighting, Games, Sweat

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is less in this than meets the eye.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Eye

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 4 Jan. 1922

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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.'

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Champion, Identity, Excess

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• [To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Party, Men, Years

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• Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sex, Thinking, Lessons

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• Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Scotch, Two, Brave

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• No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Husband, Men, Would Be

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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

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  Work, Women, Memorable

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Needs, Want, Stranger

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Use, Logic, Elusive

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.310, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Girl, Sexy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Dog, Lying, Believe

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Lying, Disease, Theater

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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.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Media, Political, Mind

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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