Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

Funny, Life, Live

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Tallulah Bankhead

Time, Good, Bad

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead

Time, Car, Thought

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead

Love, Start, Late

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

Life, Live, Mistakes

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead

Help, American, Audience

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead

Pure, Driven, Slush

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

Life, Alone, Hate

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead

Education, Read, Call

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

Education, Great, Service

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead

Through, Used, Photograph

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead

Sometimes, Trouble, Nobody

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead

Morning, Mother, Night

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

Known, Standards, Rumor

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead

Trouble, Nobody, Exactly

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead

Heart, Pure, Driven

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead

Time, Good, Bad

Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

Acting, Confession

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

Work, Night, Theatre

Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead

Confusion, Acting

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead

Two, Here, Once

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

Free, Wish, Ambition

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead

Wrong, Rather, Strongly

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead

There is less in this than meets the eye.
Tallulah Bankhead

Less, Eye, Meets

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 31, 1903

Died: December 12, 1968

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