Tallulah Bankhead quotes

" If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. " # Mistakes

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

" I'm as pure as the driven slush. " # Morality

" Let's not quibble! I'm 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, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. " # Excess # Moderation # Death and Dying

" 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. " # Husbands # Marriage # Fame

" I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. " # Mistakes

" 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. " # Neurosis # Life and Living # Hatred

" I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. " # Sex # Variety # Men and Women

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