Explore Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confusion.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

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

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

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

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.

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've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.

Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

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

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

Acting is a form of confession.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.