“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.”
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
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Famous Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
"I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: The cynic says "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." I say "blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed."
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've been using it for years.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
“I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long.”
"I want everything" http://home.earthlink.net/~2lulah2/everything.htm in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.
Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.
But these are the people who never get it.
“But these are the people who never get it.”
"I want everything" http://home.earthlink.net/~2lulah2/everything.htm in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.
Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.
But these are the people who never get it.
“If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.”
On drinking impacting her gambling abilities
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time.”
As quoted in The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing (1989) by Ronald Blythe, p. 3
As quoted in Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 (1997) by Melosina Lenox-Conynghim, p. vii
Variant: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
As quoted in The Girls : Sappho Goes to Hollywood (2001) by Diana McLellan, p. 134
I was raped in our driveway when I was eleven. … You know darling, it was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.
As quoted in Somebody : The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando (2011), by Stefan Kanfer, p. 65
“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”
Source: Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980), p. 2
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words, p. 1
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
