Tallulah Bankhead Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Ambition, Wish, Would Be

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Champion, Excess, Moderation

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

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• My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

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  Horse, Progress, Limits

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Years, Cocaine, Should

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• Acting is a form of confession.

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  Acting, Confession, Form

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.320, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Men, Rumor, Obscurity

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• A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.

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  Frozen, Afternoon, Soothing

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

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• Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

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  Light, Bangs, Television

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• If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Crap, Liberal Education, Knows

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• There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Thinking, Two, Genius

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Intelligent, Intellectual

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.303, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

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  Acting, Actors, Drudgery

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Taken, Blessing, Giving

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Hate, Bed, Three

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• I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Drinking, Goats, Tick

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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