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Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Bankhead was known for her husky voice, outrageous personality, and devastating wit. Originating some of the 20th century theater's preeminent roles in comedy and melodrama, she gained acclaim as an actress on both sides of the Atlantic. Bankhead became an icon of the tempestuous, flamboyant actress, and her unique voice and mannerisms are often subject to imitation and parody.

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Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and -. BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

Bangs, Cannon, Cram, Light, Television

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

Behaved, Boredom, Die, Dies, Wells

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

Claustrophobic, Funny, Give, Giving, Position, Sex

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

Assessment, Like, Making, Mirrors, Use

I have three phobias. . . : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

Bed, Hate, Three

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

Diaries, Funny, Girl, Good, Time

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

Man, Men, Something Better, Woman

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

Brave, Look, Scotch, Two, Ways

Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

Alone, Dog, Hangover, Lying, Swindled, Time

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

Actresses, American, Dahling, Helping, Theater, Want

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Funny, Life, Mistake, Strongly, Weakly, Wrong

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

Age, Asked, Left, Wit, Years

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.

Hate, Life, Slick, Sonnet, Three, Water

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

Disease, Lying, Occupational, Theater

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Memorable, Night, Steady, Tragic, Women, Work

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

Needs, Want, Stranger, Unlikely, Tell

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

Childfree, Childless, Darling

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

Empty, Fill, Full, Funny, Humor, Life

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

Drinking, Fried, Goats, Tick, Tight

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Driven, Pure, Sex, Slush

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