Tallulah Bankhead quotes

Tallulah Bankhead was an American stage and screen actress known for her charismatic presence and husky voice. A prominent figure in theater and classic Hollywood, she became famous for both her dramatic talent and eccentric personality. She remains a legendary icon of wit, style, and boldness in show business history. Here are 34 of her quotes:

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time. (Tallulah Bankhead)

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

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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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my father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine. (Tallulah Bankhead)

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

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Tallulah Bankhead

They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.

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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

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Acting is a form of confession.

Tallulah Bankhead

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know-I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

I've tried several varieties of sex. Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw, and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.

Tallulah Bankhead

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. (Tallulah Bankhead)

Codeine...bourbon...

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

The cynic says "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." I say "blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed.

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Tallulah Bankhead

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: January 31, 1902
Died: December 12, 1968
Quotes count: 34
Wikipedia: Tallulah Bankhead

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