Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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  Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Honor

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.303, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Party, Thinking, America

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.282, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Father, Men, Alcohol

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• They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Mirrors, Assessment, Use

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• I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Darling

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• Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Sex, Giving

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• If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Boredom, Wells, Dies

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Inspirational, Funny, Acceptance

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Long, Say Anything, Boring

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  Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Girl, Time

  Recalled on her death,12 Dec 1968.

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• Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Good Friend, Faces

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• I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Men, Something Better

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• Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sex, Men, Giving

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Men, Bed, Pieces

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• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny Love, Sex, Making Love

  "Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead". Book by Denis Brian, June 1, 1980.

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• 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

  Publicity, Said, Cases

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• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Love, Time, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  House, Negative, Sitting

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• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Photography, Temples, Used

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973)

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• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Mistake

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Enemy, Fame, Mets

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Years, Cocaine, Habit

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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