ThursdayJan 08, 2026
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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 - December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host and bonne vivante.
Never practice two vices at once.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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.
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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, Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
There is less in this than meets the eye.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work the night watchman.
On seeing a former lover for the first time in years: I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Acting is a form of confusion.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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