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

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.

Acting is a form of confession.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

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