Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

I have enemies I’ve never met – that’s fame.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Don’t be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I’m not childless, darling. I am childfree.

— Tallulah Bankhead

A Republican. A Republican. That’s worse than being a goddamned Communist!

— Tallulah Bankhead

I’m the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

— Tallulah Bankhead

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.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I’ve been called many things, but never an intellectual.

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

— Tallulah Bankhead

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?

— Tallulah Bankhead

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

— Tallulah Bankhead

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.

— Tallulah Bankhead
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