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“I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Party #Thinking #Republican
“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Girl #Time #Diaries
“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Funny #Life #Witty
“They aren't making mirrors like they use to.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Mirrors #Use #Aging
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Funny #Acceptance #Sometimes
“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Life
“I thought I told you to wait in the car.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Memorable #Car #Waiting
“If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Want #Actresses #Helping
“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Education #Grandchildren #Dice
“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.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Life #Hate #Water
“Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Life #Scratches #Empty
“My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Father #Men #Alcohol
“It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Work #Women #Memorable
“Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Long #Say Anything #Boring
“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Sex #Driven
“The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Mother #Morning #Night
“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Media #Political #Mind
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Temples #Photograph #Should
“Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Fighting #Games #Sweat
“There is less in this than meets the eye.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Eye
“I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Men #Something Better
“I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Drinking #Goats #Tick
“Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Ambition #Mind #Remember
“[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Years #Age #Wit
“... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Names #People #Olives
“For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Sea #Acting #Actors
“Acting is a form of confession.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Acting #Confession #Form
“Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Publicity #Said #Cases
“[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Party #Men #Years
“Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Ignorance #Stupidity #Honor

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