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Quotes from Tallulah: My Autobiography — Tallulah Bankhead

1902–1968 United States

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12 quotes

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

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

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

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

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

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

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: My Autobiography (1952)

There's less in this than meets the eye.

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've been using it for years.

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

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: My Autobiography (1952)

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."

Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)

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: My Autobiography (1952)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tallulah Bankhead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.