Tallulah Bankhead

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

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

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

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

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

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

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

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.