Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankheadwas an American actress of the stage and screen, and a reputed libertine. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth31 January 1903
CountryUnited States of America
I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.
Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.