Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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."