Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

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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, Television, Like, Sponsors

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

My Life, Bed, Which, Sonnet

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Practice, Never, Here, Vices

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Funny, My Life, Sooner, Same Mistakes

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

Regret, My Life, Sooner, Same Mistakes

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

Could, Oblivion, Any, Obscurity

Acting is a form of confusion.

- Tallulah Bankhead

Acting, Form, Confusion

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Through, Photograph, Shirley, Temple

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, Count, Tragic

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Education, Bible, Call, Shoot

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

Anything, Been, Could, If I Could

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Love, Start, Come, Five

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Thought, Wait, Lover, Former

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Bad, Keep, Good Girls, Bad Girls

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Never, Bad, Good Girls, Bad Girls

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

- Tallulah Bankhead

Slush, Pure, Driven

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

- Tallulah Bankhead

Heart, Driven, Pure, Slush

There is less in this than meets the eye.

- Tallulah Bankhead

Eye, Less, Than, Meets

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

More, Like, Before, Behave

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Never, Been, Things, Intellectual

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Doing, Sometimes, Even, Trouble

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Doing, Like, Even, Trouble

Acting is a form of confession.

- Tallulah Bankhead

Acting, Form, Confession

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

Help, Audience, Actress, Theater

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

- Tallulah Bankhead

Right, Rather, Than, Strongly

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