Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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

There's less in this than meets the eye.

I don’t know what I want. Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters. Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life. But these are the people who never get it.

I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.

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

The cynic says "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." I say "blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed."

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

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

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

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

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."

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.

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.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw, and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.