Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead

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.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

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