I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'

Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals