Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

Tallulah: They used to shoot her (Shirley Temple) through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.

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

Tallulah: I'm as pure as the driven slush.

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

Tallulah: I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

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

Tallulah: Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

Tallulah: My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.

Tallulah: Acting is a form of confusion.

Tallulah: I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.