Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

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

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

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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

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

Acting is a form of confusion.