For acting, darlings, is the ...

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

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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
 Tallulah Bankhead
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
 Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
 Tallulah Bankhead
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
 Tallulah Bankhead
Acting is a form of confession.
 Tallulah Bankhead