116 Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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