116 Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

... 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 think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

I’m not childless, darling. I am childfree.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don’t understand.

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

If I were well behaved, I’d die of boredom.

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