“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)
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress of the stage and screen. Bankhead was known for her husky voice, outrageous personality, and devastating wit. Originating some of the 20th century theater's preeminent roles in comedy and melodrama, she gained acclaim as an actress on both sides of the Atlantic. Bankhead became an icon of the tempestuous, flamboyant actress, and her unique voice and mannerisms are often subject to imitation and parody.
Bankhead was a member of the Brockman Bankhead family, a prominent Alabama political family; her grandfather and uncle were U.S. Senators and her father served as an 11-term member of Congress, the final two as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Tallulah's support of liberal causes such as civil rights broke with the tendency of the Southern Democrats to support a more typically aligned agenda and she often opposed her own family publicly.Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead did have one hit film—Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat —as well as a brief but successful career on radio. She later made appearances on television as well.
In her personal life, Bankhead struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction, smoked around 120 cigarettes per day, and was known for her promiscuous uninhibited sex life with both men and women, with Bankhead very outspoken about her vices. Bankhead was kind and generous to those in need, supporting disadvantaged foster children and helping several families escape the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Bankhead was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972, and the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981. Upon her death, Bankhead had amassed nearly 300 film, stage, television, and radio roles.
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“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)
"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."
“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
Kontext: 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
Kontext: 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, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
“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)
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
Varianta: 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.”
Zdroj: 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)