Tallulah: My Autobiography
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“I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.”
“I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.”
“A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.”
“I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.”
“In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.”
“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
“(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.”
“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.”
“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”
“If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”
“It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“Acting is a form of confession.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”
“I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.”