All Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
- If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Business
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. Car
- I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. Clock
- I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Bible
- If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. Actress
- Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. Anything Like
- 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… Alone
- I'm as pure as the driven slush. Driven
- The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. Behave
- They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Gauze
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. Bad
- 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… Any
- I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. Funny
- Acting is a form of confession. Acting
- It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. Count
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. Never Practice
- 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. Absolutely
- There is less in this than meets the eye. Eye
- I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle,… Champion
- I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. Been
- They aren't making mirrors like they use to. Aging
- Don't think this has taught me a lesson ! Lesson
- Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any… All
- I thought I told you to wait in the car. Car
- I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. Claustrophobic