Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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

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

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

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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

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

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

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

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...

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

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.

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

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

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

There’s less here than meets the eye.

Codeine . . . bourbon.

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

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

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

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. Codeine...bourbon..." (Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words).

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. 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 (1903-68) How much of human life is lost in waiting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) Only a life lived for others is worth living. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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.

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

Good girls keep diaries; bad girls don’t have the time.’ Tallulah Bankhead, by the way.

Dottie Frank, who is bigger than life, sweeter than my grandma’s cherry-chip cake and more giving than a lucky slot machine; Rita Mae Brown (who calls me Tallulah Bankhead) told me never to give up and to

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

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

When it came to trading insults Tallulah Bankhead was Bette’s equal: ‘Don’t think I don’t know who’s been spreading gossip about me. After all the nice things I’ve said about that hag. When I get hold of her, I’ll tear out every hair of her moustache! Bette and I are very good friends. There’s nothing I wouldn’t say to her face, both of them.