Tallulah Bankhead quotes

Tallulah Bankhead was a brilliantly vulgar American celebrity back in the yonder days of the U.S. and that's just about all you need to know about her. She was deliciously fierce and quotable - so keep in mind that she said everything below in the years between 1910 and 1965:

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

- I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others give me stiff neck or lockjaw.

- In response to reporter Earl Wilson asking if she had ever been mistaken for a man: No, darling. Have you?

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

- They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They ought to photograph me through linoleum.

- After seeing an old flame for the first time in years: I thought I told you to wait in the car?

- Good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

- My father warned me about men and booze but he never said a thing about women or cocaine.