Tallulah Bankhead

“I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.”

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

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

“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”

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

“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it.”

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

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

“If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.”

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

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

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

“There's less to this than meets the eye.”

“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through a chain-link fence.”

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

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

“The best way to behave is to misbehave.”