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

The line plays as a quintessential Tallulah Bankhead quip: brazenly sexual, theatrically timed, and delivered with a punchline that flips romantic anticipation into comic self-sufficiency. The first sentence sets up a conventional rendezvous; the second undercuts it by implying the other person need not wait—suggesting both Bankhead’s cultivated persona of libertine confidence and her talent for epigrammatic, stage-ready humor. It also functions as a joke about punctuality and ego: the speaker assumes desire is so abundant that the encounter can proceed even in her absence. As with many celebrity one-liners, its power lies less in literal instruction than in the performance of audacity.