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uninhibited United States actress (1903-1968)

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I love your gown darling, but your handbag is on fire!

– Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

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

– Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

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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.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

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I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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

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

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making peace with people is the only wat yo success

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My heart is pure as the driven slush.

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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.

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I have been told that when asked what her preferred reading material is marooned on an island would be, she answered, "A tatooted sailor." True?
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