Tallulah Bankhead Quotations

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

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

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

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

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

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

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.

Acting is a form of confession.

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