Top 89 Tallulah's Quotes
#1. 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.
Tallulah Bankhead
#5. Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.
Tallulah Bankhead
#9. If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
#10. 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.
Tallulah Bankhead
#11. I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead
#13. A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
Tallulah Bankhead
#14. Some call it energy, some say it's spirit, but I believe it's the love that people share that keeps them connected, even after death.
Tallulah Grace
#15. Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.
Tallulah Bankhead
#18. In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
Tallulah Bankhead
#19. Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Tallulah Bankhead
#20. Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#21. For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
Tallulah Bankhead
#22. Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.
Louise Rennison
#23. I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
#24. [On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
Tallulah Bankhead
#25. The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead
#26. A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.
Howard Dietz
#28. Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.
Tallulah Bankhead
#29. Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.
Tallulah Bankhead
#31. Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.
Tallulah Bankhead
#32. I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.
Tallulah Bankhead
#33. In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.
Tallulah Bankhead
#36. My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
Tallulah Bankhead
#37. My mom was very much like 'Love your body, love yourself, run around naked ... ' Whatever we wanted to do, it was very accepting.
Tallulah Belle Willis
#39. It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?
Tallulah Bankhead
#40. If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead
#41. It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead
#42. They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead
#43. It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead
#44. 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.
Tallulah Bankhead
#45. Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years
Tallulah Bankhead
#46. My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.
Tallulah Bankhead
#48. Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why.
He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.
Louise Rennison
#49. The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling.
...
Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again.
Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie.
Louise Rennison
#50. I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
Sada Thompson
#52. There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.
Tallulah Bankhead
#53. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
#54. Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Tallulah Bankhead
#56. All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.
Tallulah Bankhead
#58. (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead
#59. It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead
Debbie Macomber
#60. I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead
#61. I have three phobias ... : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
Tallulah Bankhead
#62. Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.
Tallulah Bankhead
#63. I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go to bed,I hate to get up and I hate to be alone ...
Tallulah Bankhead
#65. Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.
Tallulah Bankhead
#66. My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?
Louise Rennison
#68. I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
Tallulah Bankhead
#69. Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead
#70. Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos
#71. I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
Tallulah Bankhead
#72. They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.
Tallulah Bankhead
#73. There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
Tallulah Bankhead
#75. Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!
Patsy Kelly
#76. Sorry Slick, but I have news about Casanova. You remember, the case we're working? The reason that you're here?" Dylan tried to keep it light, but inside he was seething.
Tallulah Grace
#77. When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.
Sheridan Smith
#79. I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
Tallulah Bankhead
#80. Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
#81. Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.
Tallulah Bankhead
#83. Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
Anita Loos
#85. Apparently if you want to get a boy to like you, you go sort of mysterious and icy and cool. That's what my cousin said and she has loads of boyfriends and snogging-type experiences.
Louise Rennison
#86. Neither knew how long they kissed, neither cared. It was difficult to say which one held up the other; both were balanced against each other, as they fell into an abyss filled with psychedelic colors, shooting stars, and the pounding of one heart.
Tallulah Grace
#87. A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.
Tallulah Bankhead
#88. Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?"
I said, "Come on then, they are down here."
He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is ... me!!!!
Louise Rennison
#89. [To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.
Tallulah Bankhead
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