I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

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

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

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.