Tallulah Bankhead

"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 the time."

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

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

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

"Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've been using it for years."

"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."

"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."