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Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

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 quotes: I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

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

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

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair.

I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.

A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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

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

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 quotes: They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: My heart is pure as the driven slush.

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: There's less here than meets the eye.

There's less here than meets the eye.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

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 quotes: A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: There is less in this than meets the eye.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: [On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

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

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

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I'm as pure as the driven slush.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Acting is a form of confusion.

Acting is a form of confusion.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Acting is a form of confession.

Acting is a form of confession.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

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

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 quotes: Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: [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.

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Codeine . . . bourbon.

Codeine . . . bourbon.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead quotes: Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.

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 quotes: I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.