Tallulah Bankhead
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"Tallulah Brockman Bankhead" was an American actress of the stage and screen, talk-show host, and reputed libertine. Bankhead was also known for her deep voice, flamboyant personality and support of liberalism in the United States/liberal causes, which broke with the tendency of Southern Democrats at the time to support a more conservatism in the United States/conservative agenda.

She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981.

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

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.

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.

Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room.

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

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

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

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

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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

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