Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know-I've been using it for years.
– Tallulah Bankhead
Dahling Congressman Boykin: 10 AM is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman.
– Tallulah Bankhead
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
– Tallulah Bankhead
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
– Tallulah Bankhead
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
– Tallulah Bankhead
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
– 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 diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
– Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
– Tallulah Bankhead
They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.
– Tallulah Bankhead
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
– Tallulah Bankhead
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
– Tallulah Bankhead
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
– Tallulah Bankhead
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
– Tallulah Bankhead
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
– 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
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.