Explore Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

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.

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

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

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

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

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

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.