Tallulah Bankhead famous quotes

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Party #Thinking #Republican

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Girl #Time #Diaries

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

#Funny #Life #Witty

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Mirrors #Use #Aging

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

#Funny #Acceptance #Sometimes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Life

I thought I told you to wait in the car.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Memorable #Car #Waiting

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

#Want #Actresses #Helping

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

#Education #Grandchildren #Dice

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

#Life #Hate #Water

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Life #Scratches #Empty

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Father #Men #Alcohol

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Work #Women #Memorable

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Long #Say Anything #Boring

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Sex #Driven

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Mother #Morning #Night

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Media #Political #Mind

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

#Temples #Photograph #Should

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.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Fighting #Games #Sweat

There is less in this than meets the eye.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Eye

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Men #Something Better

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Drinking #Goats #Tick

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.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Ambition #Mind #Remember

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Years #Age #Wit

... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Names #People #Olives

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

#Sea #Acting #Actors

Acting is a form of confession.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Acting #Confession #Form

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Publicity #Said #Cases

[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.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Party #Men #Years

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Ignorance #Stupidity #Honor

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Lying #Disease #Theater

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a ***** Communist!
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Republican #Communist

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Darling

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#House #Sitting #Rooms

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Love #Time #Years

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.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Husband #Men #Would Be

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

#Sex #Men #Giving

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

#Sex #Practice #Two

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.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Ambition #Wish #World

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

#Men #Rumor #Obscurity

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Crap #Liberal Education

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Funny #Girl #Motivation

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

#Years #Cocaine #Habit

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.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Girl #Writing #Diaries

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.'
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Champion #Identity #Excess

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

#Intelligent #Intellectual

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Sex #Thinking #Taught

Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Dog #Lying #Believe

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

#Sex #Making Love #Clock

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

#Funny #Sex #Giving

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Acting #Actors