Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

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

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

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?

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

A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.

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.

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

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

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

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.