Tallulah Bankhead quotes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

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• mistakes

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

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• funny

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

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• identity

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

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• mistakes

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.

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• mental

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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• morals

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

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• intelligence

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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• inflate

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.

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• sex

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

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• education

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

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• bad

Acting is a form of confession.

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• acting

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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• theater

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

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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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• count

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

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• exactly

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

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• bad

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

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• actress

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.

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• marriage

Let's not quibble! 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.

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• excess

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

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• individualism