The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
Tallulah Bankhead
American
Actress
About the author
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Time
#Thought
#First
#Car
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Time
#Girls
#Diaries
My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Heart
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Trouble
Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Trouble
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Time
#Girls
#Diaries
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,
American
Actress
#Television
#Education
#Service
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Night
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Past
#Mistakes
#Regret
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Man
#Night
#Theatre
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Temple
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
There is less in this than meets the eye.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Eye
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Practice
#Vices
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Life
#Mistakes
Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Confusion
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Want
#American
#Help
#Theater
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,
American
Actress
#Man
#Rumor
#Obscurity
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,
American
Actress
#World
#Ambition
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Hate
#Bed
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Bible
#Education
#Shakespeare
#Liberal
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Right
#Wrong
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Love
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Confession