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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
[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
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair. -- Tallulah Bankhead
They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Codeine . . . bourbon. -- Tallulah Bankhead
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Acting is a form of confusion. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. -- Tallulah Bankhead
My heart is as pure as the driven slush. -- Tallulah Bankhead
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. -- 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'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. -- Tallulah Bankhead
A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist! -- Tallulah Bankhead
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. -- 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
Don't think this has taught me a lesson ! -- Tallulah Bankhead
I'm as pure as the driven slush. -- Tallulah Bankhead
In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture. -- 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
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 read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better. -- Tallulah Bankhead
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling. -- 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 have enemies I've never met - that's fame. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined. -- 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
In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Acting is a form of confession. -- Tallulah Bankhead
There is less in this than meets the eye. -- Tallulah Bankhead
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine. -- Tallulah Bankhead
My heart is pure as the driven slush. -- Tallulah Bankhead
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? -- Tallulah Bankhead
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. -- Tallulah Bankhead
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. -- Tallulah Bankhead
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. -- 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
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
Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years -- 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
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
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
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring. -- Tallulah Bankhead
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. -- 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
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. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I have three phobias ... : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone. -- Tallulah Bankhead
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. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go to bed,I hate to get up and I hate to be alone ... -- Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat! -- Tallulah Bankhead
Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition. -- 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
There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. -- Tallulah Bankhead
They aren't making mirrors like they use to. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. -- 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
There's less here than meets the eye. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery. -- Tallulah Bankhead
A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable. -- Tallulah Bankhead