Famous Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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

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 Bankhead

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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 Bankhead

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 Bankhead

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

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

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