Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.