Quotes from Tallulah Bankhead

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

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.

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

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

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

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

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

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

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

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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

They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.

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