“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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"I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Kontext: 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."
“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“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 <br class="br">Kontext: I don’t know what I want.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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 <br class="br">Kontext: I don’t know what I want.<br>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.<br>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.<br>But these are the people who never get it.
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
“Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.”
On drinking impacting her gambling abilities
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've been using it for years.”
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.
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.”
Quelle: 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)
