If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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About Tallulah Bankhead

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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). She also had a brief but successful career on radio and made appearances on television....

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

—Tallulah Bankhead

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

—Tallulah Bankhead

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

—Tallulah Bankhead

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

—Tallulah Bankhead

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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That life… that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied—nonetheless she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when it would not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret.

—Sigrid Undsetfs

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Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

—Mary McCarthy

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I don’t know what comes next. I can’t know, until I’ve walked the road I’ve chosen. I don’t have a plan, and there is no map for this. It’s terrifying, but there’s a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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I’ve got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

—Sydney J. Harris

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