Tallulah Bankhead > Quotes

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

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

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

“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

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

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go to bed,I hate to get up and I hate to be alone...”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“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

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

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

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

“There’s less here than meets the eye.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Codeine . . . bourbon.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“ I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair. ”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“My heart is pure as the driven slush.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”
― 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

“Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.”
― Tallulah Bankhead, Tallulah: My Autobiography

“It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.”
― Tallulah Bankhead