[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.