Quotes by

Tallulah Bankhead

Lets not quibble! Im 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, Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

Im as pure as the driven slush. – Tallulah Bankhead

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

Its one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman. – Tallulah Bankhead

Ive tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. – Tallulah Bankhead

If I had my life to live again. Id make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead

Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

Ive been called many things, but never an intellectual. – Tallulah Bankhead

The less I behave like Whistlers mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. – Tallulah Bankhead

Ill come and make love to you at five oclock. If Im late start without me. – Tallulah Bankhead

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls dont have time. – Tallulah Bankhead

If I had to live my life again, Id make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. Thats what I call a liberal education. – Tallulah Bankhead

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but theres no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. – 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 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

There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. – Tallulah Bankhead