Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
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My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.
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[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.
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A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.
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Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
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My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.
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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
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They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.
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Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.
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They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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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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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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