Creative Quotations from Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968)

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Tallulah Bankhead
(1903-1968) born on Jan 31

US actress. She was a flamboyant, husky-voiced actress best known for Broadway's "The Little Foxes," 1939.

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Dahling Congressman Boykin: 10 AM is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman.

I am as pure as the driven slush.

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

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Response to invitation to speak at a fund-raising rally for a new civic auditorium in Washington DC, news summaries 15 Jan 55
R:
A:	Somerset Maugham," (E. Morgan)
N:	Tallulah, ch. 4 (1952). According to Tallulah, this was the riposte she used to shock people when taking throat lozenges. She claimed never to have used cocaine "except medicinally."
K:	On seeing a former lover after an absence of many years; Attributed.