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I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being — Louise Rennison

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. — Tallulah Bankhead

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat! — Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

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

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead

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

I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair. — Tallulah Bankhead

A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable. — Tallulah Bankhead

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. — Tallulah Bankhead

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it. — Tallulah Bankhead

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

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. — Tallulah Bankhead

They aren't making mirrors like they use to. — Tallulah Bankhead

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame. — Tallulah Bankhead

My heart is pure as the driven slush. — Tallulah Bankhead

There's less here than meets the eye. — Tallulah Bankhead

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. — Tallulah Bankhead

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine. — Tallulah Bankhead

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring. — Tallulah Bankhead

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

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. — Tallulah Bankhead

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist! — Tallulah Bankhead

There is less in this than meets the eye. — Tallulah Bankhead

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. — Tallulah Bankhead

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. — Tallulah Bankhead

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture. — Tallulah Bankhead

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree. — Tallulah Bankhead

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

I'm as pure as the driven slush. — Tallulah Bankhead

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease. — Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back! — Patsy Kelly

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

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling. — Tallulah Bankhead

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. — Tallulah Bankhead

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling. — Tallulah Bankhead

Don't think this has taught me a lesson ! — Tallulah Bankhead

I have three phobias ... : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone. — Tallulah Bankhead

I am not an ice cream come! I am a human being! — Louise Rennison

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive. — Tallulah Bankhead

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. — Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confusion. — Tallulah Bankhead

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead — Debbie Macomber

Codeine . . . bourbon. — Tallulah Bankhead

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me. — Tallulah Bankhead

Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia. — Tallulah Bankhead

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. — Tallulah Bankhead

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. — Tallulah Bankhead

There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. — Tallulah Bankhead

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives. — Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better. — Tallulah Bankhead

Some call it energy, some say it's spirit, but I believe it's the love that people share that keeps them connected, even after death. — Tallulah Grace

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery. — Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confession. — Tallulah Bankhead

My mom was very much like 'Love your body, love yourself, run around naked ... ' Whatever we wanted to do, it was very accepting. — Tallulah Belle Willis

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. — Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed. — Anita Loos

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them. — Tallulah Bankhead

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country. — Howard Dietz

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand. — Tallulah Bankhead

My heart is as pure as the driven slush. — Tallulah Bankhead

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. — Tallulah Bankhead