Author: Tallulah Bankhead

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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.

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

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

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

- 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.

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

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

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

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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