Tallulah Bankhead quotes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

• 33
• mistakes

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

• 29
• funny

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

• 17
• identity

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

• 7
• mistakes

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.

• 5
• mental

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

• 4
• morals

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

• 3
• intelligence

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.

• 2
• inflate

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

• 1
• sex

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

• 1
• education

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

• bad

Acting is a form of confession.

• acting

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

• theater

It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

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

• count

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

• exactly

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

• bad

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

• actress

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.

• marriage

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.

• excess

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

• individualism