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Tallulah Bankhead Radio personality

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Jan 31, 1902
  • Died: Dec 12, 1968

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress of the stage and screen, talk-show host, and reputed libertine. Bankhead was also known for her deep voice, flamboyant personality, and support of liberal causes, which broke with the tendency of Southern Democrats at the time to support a more conservative agenda. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

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.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.