Happy Birthday, Tallulah Bankhead (January 31st, 1903-December 12, 1968)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/tallulah_bankhead/

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

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

“My heart is as pure as the driven slush”

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

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

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

“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”

:toast:

[bluetrain]

1. "I thought I told you to wait in the car."

- upon seeing an exboyfriend at a party for the first time in several years

"My father warned me about men and liquor but he never said a word about women and cocaine."

"THERE WILL BE NO FUCKING CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR - I DESPISE CHRISTMAS" - notices to cast and crew during tour of Crazy October

"I'm pure as the driven slish, and I wouldn't have minded illegitmate children, but I had relatives in politics."

"I shall go around the world in a mackintosh!"

"You can plough through life, darling, breaking all the conventions, but religion and death must be respected."

"I was born in 1903, so that makes me 48, darling. And if any cunt contests that, I'll part his hair with a polo mallet."

"Do you think I don't know who's been spreading gossip about me and my temperament out there in Hollywood, darlings, where they made that film, All About Me? After all the nice things I've said about that hag, Bette Davis! When I get hold of her, I'll tear every hair out of her mustache!"

"I just loved the close-ups, darling. Your face looked like four yards of corduroy."

"My God, I've killed it!" - after dropping an egg on the floor

"All my life I've been terrible at remembering names. Once, I introduced a friend of mine as Martini - her real name was Olive."

"Somebody once said marriage is an institution - and who wants to live in an institution? And as for wanting to have children, I prefer pets. They never outgrow or outlive you, and they won't contest your will."