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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• Tallulah Bankhead:

  Acting is a form of confession.

• Tallulah Bankhead:

  I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

• Tallulah Bankhead:

  There is less in this than meets the eye.

• Tallulah Bankhead:

  My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

• Tallulah Bankhead:

  Acting is a form of confusion.

• Tallulah Bankhead:

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

• Tallulah Bankhead:

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

• Tallulah Bankhead:

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

• Tallulah Bankhead:

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

• Tallulah Bankhead:

  The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning aft