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!

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.

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

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

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.