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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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