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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
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
— Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
— Mrs. Patrick Campbell
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair.
— Tallulah Bankhead
A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
— Tallulah Bankhead
My heart is pure as the driven slush.
— Tallulah Bankhead
There's less here than meets the eye.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
— Tallulah Bankhead
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.
— Tallulah Bankhead
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
— Tallulah Bankhead
There is less in this than meets the eye.
— Tallulah Bankhead
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
— Tallulah Bankhead
In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!
— Patsy Kelly
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
— Tallulah Bankhead
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.
— Tallulah Bankhead
In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.
— 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
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.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
— Tallulah Bankhead
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Acting is a form of confusion.
— Tallulah Bankhead
It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead
— Debbie Macomber
Acting is a form of confession.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
— Tallulah Bankhead
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
— Tallulah Bankhead
There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
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
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
[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
My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Codeine . . . bourbon.
— Tallulah Bankhead
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
— Anita Loos
Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
I have three phobias ... : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
— Tallulah Bankhead