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.

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

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

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

Acting is a form of confusion.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Acting is a form of confession.

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

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

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

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.