Tallulah Bankhead citations

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead, née à Huntsville, Alabama le 31 janvier 1902 et morte le 12 décembre 1968 à New York, est une actrice américaine. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. janvier 1902 – 12. décembre 1968
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Tallulah Bankhead: Citations en anglais

“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)

“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.”

"I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Contexte: 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."

“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
Contexte: 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
Contexte: 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.

“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
Variante: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

“I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.”

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'm as pure as the driven slush.”

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

“Codeine…bourbon…”

Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words, p. 1
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)

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