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

Acting is a form of confession.

Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.