My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Quote by Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it...

They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.

They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.

Acting is a form of confession.

Acting is a form of confession.

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

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

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call...

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call...

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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

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

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

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick...

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick...

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

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

There is less in this than meets the eye.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in...