Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

American - Actress January 31, 1902 - December 12, 1968

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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

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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 heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Tallulah Bankhead