Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

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

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

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

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.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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

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.

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

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

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

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch.

I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

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.

Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater.

Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

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.

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

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

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

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.

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

Acting is a form of confession.

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

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize.

Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

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.

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

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

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.

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

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.