Author: Tallulah Bankhead

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Characteristics

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Sex

If you really want to help the American theater darling, be an audience.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Acting Insults Reviews/Criticism

I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice; that’s what I call a liberal education.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Education

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Insults

Darling, they’ve absolutely ruined your perfectly dreadful play.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Reviews/Criticism

They used to shoot her through gauze; you should shoot me through linoleum.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Appearance People Self

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Characteristics Girls People Women

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Death Mistakes Problems

Cocaine isn’t habit forming; I should know, I’ve been taking it for years.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Activities Drugs

After all the nice things I’ve said about that hag! … when I get hold of her I’ll tear out every hair of her mustache!

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Appearance Insults

Acting is a form of confusion.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Acting Entertainment Occupations Work

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends; there's nothing I wouldn't say to her face – both of them.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Insults

I have enemies I’ve never met – that’s fame.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Success

There's less in this than meets the eye.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Reviews/Criticism

There have been only two geniuses in the world – Willie Mays and William Shakespeare.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
People

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Life

Codeine… bourbon…

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Last words

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Situations