Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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

Tallulah Bankhead
My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.

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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.

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

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I don't know what I am, darling. I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. And the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw.

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Let's face it, my dears, I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat! But I'm no toper. No tosspot.

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

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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

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Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

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

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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.

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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.

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Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.

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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."

Tallulah Bankhead
Observing herself in a mirror after a party given by Dorothy Parker:
The less I behave like Whistler's Mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

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 longue as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

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

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

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Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

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

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

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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 is less in this than meets the eye.

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