Tallulah Bankhead

“There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”

“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”

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

“Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years”

“Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.”

“ I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair. ”

“My heart is pure as the driven slush.”

“Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.”

“They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.”

“There’s less here than meets the eye.”

“Codeine . . . bourbon.”

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

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

“My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”

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

“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go to bed,I hate to get up and I hate to be alone...”

“I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.”

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

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