17 Quotes & Sayings By Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead was an actress, born in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 9, 1907. In 1923, she won a scholarship to the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. In 1927 she joined the comedy team of W. C Read more

Fields and George Burns in a film called "The Bank Dick," and in the following year, with Marc Connelly and Burns, in "Not So Bad as We Seem." In 1930 she married actor Paul Bern, but the marriage was not a happy one. She appeared in several plays during the early 1930s but her career stalled. She started to develop a drinking problem which lasted throughout her life, and she appeared to be unable to hold down any job or relationship.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock....
1
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. Tallulah Bankhead
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
2
I'm as pure as the driven slush. Tallulah Bankhead
3
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. Tallulah Bankhead
If I had to live my life again, I'd make...
4
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot...
5
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead
6
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 Bankhead
7
There have only been two geniuses in the world – Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. Tallulah Bankhead
8
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. Tallulah Bankhead
9
Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once. Tallulah Bankhead
10
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
11
The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead
12
There is less in this than meets the eye. Tallulah Bankhead
13
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 Bankhead
14
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead
15
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. Tallulah Bankhead
16
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