Tallulah Bankhead

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

“I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."”

“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

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

“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Acting is a form of confession.”

“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“My heart is as pure as the driven slush.”