Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.

I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.