Tallulah Bankhead had some awesome quotations especially for the mid twentieth century:
• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
• 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."
• There is less in this than meets the eye.
• I'm not at my best when I start to moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.
• I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
• I'm as pure as the driven slush.
• If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it.
• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
• 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.
• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
• Acting is a form of confusion.
• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.
• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
• Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.
• Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
• I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
• Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
• 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.
• I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
• A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.
• Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise longue as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.
• My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
• Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know -- I've been using it for years
