FridayOct 16, 2026
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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 - December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host and bonne vivante.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Acting is a form of confusion.
On seeing a former lover for the first time in years: I thought I told you to wait in the car.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work the night watchman.
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
There is less in this than meets the eye.
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.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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.
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Never practice two vices at once.
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