Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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

There's less in this than meets the eye.

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

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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

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