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.

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.

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

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

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.