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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

There is less in this than meets the eye.

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- 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

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

Acting is a form of confusion.

- Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confession.

- Tallulah Bankhead

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

- 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

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

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