Tallulah Bankhead Quotes


"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Time, Diaries, Girls)

"My heart is as pure as the driven slush."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Heart)

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Trouble)

"Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Trouble)

"Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Time, Diaries, Girls)

"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
(Related: Education, Service, Television)

"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Mother, Night)

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Life, Mistakes, Past, Regret)

"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
(Related: Work, Man, Night, Theatre)

"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Temple)

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."
- Tallulah Bankhead
"There is less in this than meets the eye."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Eye)

"Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Practice, Vices)

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Life, Mistakes)

"Acting is a form of confusion."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Acting, Confusion)

"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: American, Help, Theater, Want)

"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
(Related: Man, Obscurity, Rumor)

"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
(Related: Ambition, World)

"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
(Related: Life, Bed, Hate)

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Education, Bible, Liberal, Shakespeare)

"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Right, Wrong)

"I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Love)

"I've been called many things, but never an intellectual."
- Tallulah Bankhead
"Acting is a form of confession."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Acting, Confession)