Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
• Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
• Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
• Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
• The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
• 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.
• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
• I'm as pure as the driven slush.
• There is less in this than meets the eye.
• Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
• If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
• Acting is a form of confusion.
• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
• 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.
• 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.
• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
• I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
• Acting is a form of confession.