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Tallulah Bankhead
19 quotes
“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.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
“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 Bankhead (1902–1968) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing (1989) by Ronald Blythe, p. 3
“I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Girls : Sappho Goes to Hollywood (2001) by Diana McLellan, p. 134
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water — I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've been using it for years.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source