Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them. Tallulah Bankhead More Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead More Quotes From Tallulah Bankhead If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. Tallulah Bankhead boredomwellsdies 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 sweatfightinggames Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years. Tallulah Bankhead cocainehabityears I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. Tallulah Bankhead funny-lovemaking-lovesex There is less in this than meets the eye. Tallulah Bankhead eye I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. Tallulah Bankhead mistakelifefunny 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 scotchbravetwo 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 girldiarieswriting 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 husbandwould-bemen 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 excesschampionidentity 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 actorsactingsea If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. Tallulah Bankhead actresseswanthelping I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead dicegrandchildreneducation 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 ambitionmindremember [On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling. Tallulah Bankhead witageyears [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 sittinghousenegative [To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car. Tallulah Bankhead partymenyears A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist! Tallulah Bankhead communistrepublican (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. Tallulah Bankhead timeloveyears It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. Tallulah Bankhead sexygirlfunny
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