I’m as pure as the driven slush.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Morals, Morality, Virtue
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
Topics: Acting, Theater
I’ve been called many things, but never an intellectual.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Intellectuals, Intelligence
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.”
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Excess, Mistakes
It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Girls, Women
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
Topics: Mistakes, Remorse, Repentance, Regret
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Personality, Identity
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
Topics: Mental Illness
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
Topics: Marriage, Husbands
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
Topics: Sex
If you really want to help the American theater, don’t be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Audiences
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Photography
I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Topics: Education
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