Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 - December 12, 1968) was a United States actress, talk-show host and bonne vivante, born in Huntsville, Alabama.

Famous Quotes

• 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. (Referring to Shirley Temple)
• I'm as pure as the driven slush.
• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
• 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.
• My father warned me about men and booze... but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
• Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
• Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
• Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
• Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.