Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

About Tallulah Bankhead:

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress of the stage and screen, talk-show host, and reputed libertine. Bankhead was also known for her deep voice, flamboyant personality and support of liberal causes, which broke with the tendency of Southern Democrats at the time to support a more conservative agenda. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as 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

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confession.

Tallulah Bankhead

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Tallulah Bankhead

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confusion.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

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 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

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameTallulah Bankhead
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornJanuary 31, 1902
  • DiedDecember 12, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Autobiographer