Tallulah Bankhead
Full Name: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
Birthdate: January 31, 1902
Birthplace: Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Date of Death: December 12, 1968
Occupation: Actor
Profile: Best known for
Lifeboat.
Website: http://www.tallulahbankhead.com/
Number of Quotes: 34
Acting is a form of confusion.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.
Famously quoted, reflecting her candidness about her lifestyle.
Codeine...bourbon.
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
First person to fall asleep is a shit!
Party at her place.
Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
Here's to alcohol, the rose-colored glasses of life.
Reflects her notorious love for drinking.
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my
way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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.
I read Shakespeare and
the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
I thought I told you to wait in the car.
On seeing a former lover for the first time in years.
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
I'm a nymphomaniac. I'm a compulsive eater. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm a homosexual. I'm a genius.
Authenticity questionable.
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
One of her most iconic lines, referencing her public persona.
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 (1952)
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
Reflects her bold humor and openness about sexuality.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
If you really want to help somebody, you help them to help themselves.
Authenticity questionable.
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady workâthe night watchman.
Highlights her wit about the unpredictability of acting.
It's the good girls who keep the diaries. The bad girls never have the time.
A quip on her rebellious persona.
My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
Authenticity questionable.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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.
There is less in this than meets the eye.
Reportedly said about a play she starred in.
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
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